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Lists of acronyms contain acronyms, a type of abbreviation formed from the initial components of the words of a longer name or phrase. They are organized alphabetically and by field. They are organized alphabetically and by field.
Foreign words sometimes use Е rather than Э, even if it is pronounced e instead of ye. In addition, Ё is often replaced by Е; this makes Е even more common. 'T' appears about 9.1% 3 А: 7.64% 'A' appears about 8.2% 4 И: 7.09% 'O' appears about 7.5% 5 Н: 6.78% The most common consonant in the Russian alphabet. 'I' appears about 7% 6 Т: 6 ...
The next three words come after Aster because their fourth letter (the first one that differs) is r, which comes after e (the fourth letter of Aster) in the alphabet. Those words themselves are ordered based on their sixth letters (l, n and p respectively). Then comes At, which differs from the preceding words in the second letter (t comes ...
There is a non-IPA letter, U+0235 ȵ LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CURL; ȵ ( n , plus the curl found in the symbols for alveolo-palatal sibilant fricatives ɕ, ʑ ), which is used especially in Sinological circles. The alveolo-palatal nasal is commonly described as palatal; it is often unclear whether a language has a true palatal or not.
The exception are some words ending in -m, thus hem ['home'] [but hemma ('at home')] and stam ['stem'], but lamm ['lamb', to distinguish the word from lam ('lame')], with a long /a /), as well as adjectives in -nn, so tunn, 'thin' but tunt, 'thinly' (while Norwegian has a rule always prohibiting two "m"s at the end of a word (with the exception ...
One of the most remarkable examples of a lipogram is Ernest Vincent Wright's novel Gadsby (1939), which has over 50,000 words but not a single letter E. [12] Wright's self-imposed rule prohibited such common English words as the and he , plurals ending in -es , past tenses ending in -ed , and even abbreviations like Mr. (since it is short for ...
h only occurs in loanwords; however, many of them have been nativized and are not perceived as loanwords. h is used: when cognate words have the letter g , ż or z , e.g.: wahadło – waga druh – drużyna błahy – błazen
Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases. Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations.