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This shows a structure typical for English-speaking cultures (and some others). Other cultures use other structures for full names. In various cultures, a middle name is a portion of a personal name that is written between a person's given name and surname. [1] [2] A middle name is often abbreviated and is then called middle initial or just ...
A musical cryptogram is a cryptogrammatic sequence of musical symbols which can be taken to refer to an extra-musical text by some 'logical' relationship, usually between note names and letters. The most common and best known examples result from composers using musically translated versions of their own or their friends' names (or initials) as ...
The Soundex code for a name consists of a letter followed by three numerical digits: the letter is the first letter of the name, and the digits encode the remaining consonants. Consonants at a similar place of articulation share the same digit so, for example, the labial consonants B, F, P, and V are each encoded as the number 1.
First/given/forename, middle, and last/family/surname with John Fitzgerald Kennedy as example. This shows a structure typical for Anglophonic cultures (and some others). Other cultures use other structures for full names. A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.
The letter yogh (ȝogh) (Ȝ ȝ; Scots: yoch; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes. It was derived from the Insular form of the letter g, Ᵹᵹ. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh.
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with Y in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
The letters chosen for the IPA are meant to harmonize with the Latin alphabet. [note 7] For this reason, most letters are either Latin or Greek, or modifications thereof. Some letters are neither: for example, the letter denoting the glottal stop, ʔ , originally had the form of a question mark with the dot removed.
Small capital Y IPA /ʏ/ IPA near-close near-front rounded vowel; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] ꭚ Y with short right leg Teuthonista [4] Swedish Dialect Alphabet: ʎ 𐞠 Turned y IPA /ʎ/ IPA voiced palatal lateral approximant, Maltese (before 1946); Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] 𝼆 𐞡 Turned y ...