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Cyrillic. 袨, 褷. Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated 士 ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician 士ayin 饜, Hebrew 士ayin注 , Aramaic 士膿 饜, Syriac 士膿 堀, and Arabic 士ayn毓 (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). [ note 1 ] The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ 蕰 /) or a ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
There are also numerous vowelless interjections and onomatopoeia found more or less frequently, including brr or brrr, bzzt, grrr, hm, hmm, mm, mmm, mhmm, sksksksk, [13][14] pfft, pht, phpht, [7] psst, sh, shh, zzz. It is questionable whether any of these are words: they are sequences of letters used to imitate a sound, and there is no limit to ...
3rd baseman (5) fields a hard-hit ball and steps on third for a force out on R2 (6), then throws a laser to 2nd Baseman (4) to force out R1 (7) at second. Finally, 2nd Baseman (4) fires the ball to 1st Baseman (3) to complete the double play by retiring the batter (2).
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (c.801 –873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers. Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in 1450 ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The 1992-style motor vehicle license plates consist of a simplified Chinese character representing a first-level administrative region, followed by a Latin letter and a group of 5 digits or Latin letters. Typically, the Latin letter following the simplified Chinese character determines the importance of the city to the province.