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2. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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   The most common diacritic marks seen in English publications are the acute (é), grave (è), circumflex (â, î, or ô), tilde (ñ), umlaut and diaeresis (ü or ï—the same symbol is used for two different purposes), and cedilla (ç). [ 4 ] Diacritics used for tonal languages may be replaced with tonal numbers or omitted.

3. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - Wikipedia

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   The phrase shown in metal moveable type, used in printing presses (image reversed for readability) "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram – a sentencethat contains all the letters of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typingpractice, testing typewritersand computer keyboards, displaying ...

4. English orthography - Wikipedia

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   e. English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, [1][2] allowing readers and writers to associate written graphemes with the sounds of spoken English, as well as other features of the language. [3] English's orthography includes norms for spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and ...

5. Letter (alphabet) - Wikipedia

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   Definition and usage. A letter is a type of grapheme, the smallest functional unit within a writing system. Letters are graphemes that broadly correspond to phonemes, the smallest functional units of sound in speech. Similarly to how phonemes are combined to form spoken words, letters may be combined to form written words.

6. International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects

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   The International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects complies all the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent pronunciations of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in ...

7. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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   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 ...