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rare letters: x, y (except in loanwords) letter c rarely used except in the sequences listed above and in loanwords; long compound words; a period (.) after ordinal numbers, e.g. 3. Oktober; many capitalised words in the middle of sentences since German capitalizes all nouns.
Feminine nouns or names are typically made diminutive by adding the ending -ette: fillette (little girl or little daughter [affectionate], from fille, girl or daughter); courgette (small squash or marrow, i.e., zucchini, from courge, squash); Jeannette (from Jeanne); pommettes (cheekbones), from pomme (apple); cannette (female duckling), from ...
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee; pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
We say Y-Y-Y-YES to baby names that start with "Y.” "'Y' is rare as an initial, but extremely common in name endings, both in suffixes like -lyn and as a final letter," Laura Wattenberg, the ...
According to the Social Security Administration, top names that begin with “M” for girls since 1922 include Margaret, Mary, Melissa, Michelle and Madison. Top “M” names for boys include ...
The letter Y when introduced was probably called "hy" /hyː/ as in Greek, the name upsilon not being in use yet, but this was changed to i Graeca ("Greek i") as Latin speakers had difficulty distinguishing its foreign sound /y/ from /i/. Z was given its Greek name, zeta. This scheme has continued to be used by most modern European languages ...
Check out this list of 200 baby names that start with "X." ... If nothing jumps out at you, Wattenberg suggests using the letter “X” at the end of the name (think Hendrix, Marx or Max).
This is a list of named minor planets in an alphabetical, case-insensitive order grouped by the first letter of their name. [a] [b] New namings, typically proposed by the discoverer and approved by the Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the International Astronomical Union, are published nowadays in their WGSBN Bulletin and summarized in a dedicated list several times a year.