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In Arabic, the letter ق, traditionally romanised as Q, is quite distinct from ك, traditionally romanised as K; for example, ”قلب” /qalb/ means "heart" but “ كلب ” /kalb/ means "dog". However, alternative spellings are sometimes accepted, which use K (or sometimes C) in place of Q; for example, Koran (Qur'ān) and Cairo (al-Qāhira).
The most words win. Add letter point values, using Scrabble letter values. Remove one or two letters from each word and count the remaining tiles, rewarding longer words. Sum of the squares of the lengths of the words, rewarding long words more. The first player to spell or steal some number of (in the Selchow & Righter, eight [5]) words wins.
words beginning with letter sequences bp dt gc bhf; letter sequences sc cht; no use of the letter J, K, Q, V, W. frequent bh, ch, dh, fh, gh, mh, th, sh; to distinguish from (Scottish) Gaelic: there may be words or names with the second (or even third) letter capitalized instead of the first: hÉireann.
K with oblique stroke: Pre-1921 Latvian letter ᴋ̇: Small capital K with dot above: Ŀ ŀ: L with middle dot: Catalan 𝼦 L with mid-height left hook: Used by the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 20th century for romanization of the Malayalam language. [36] L̀ l̀: L with grave: Ntcham Ĺ ĺ: L with acute: Slovak, Ntcham L̂ ...
This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet.A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).
The novel forms are aitch, a regular development of Medieval Latin acca; jay, a new letter presumably vocalised like neighboring kay to avoid confusion with established gee (the other name, jy, was taken from French); vee, a new letter named by analogy with the majority; double-u, a new letter, self-explanatory (the name of Latin V was ū); wye ...
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A language may represent a given phoneme by combinations of letters rather than just a single letter. Two-letter combinations are called digraphs, and three-letter groups are called trigraphs. German uses the tetragraphs (four letters) "tsch" for the phoneme German pronunciation: and (in a few borrowed words) "dsch" for [dʒ]. [87]