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  2. Lists of acronyms - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Traditional English pronunciation of Latin - Wikipedia

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    Following labials /p b f v m/: pupa, furor, nebula, uvula, musæum Following velars /k ɡ/ : c u mulus, lac u na, Lig u ria When it is in an interior unstressed syllable not following a palatal consonant, /j/ remains after a single consonant even when it might be deleted in a stressed syllable: aman u ensis and cf. "cell u lar, gran u lar", for ...

  4. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    For example, in French, the following four words would be sorted this way: cote < côte < coté < côté. The letter e is ordered as e é è ê ë (œ considered as oe), same thing for o as ô ö. In German letters with umlaut (Ä, Ö, Ü) are treated generally just like their non-umlauted versions; ß is always sorted as ss. This makes the ...

  5. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letters A, E, I, O, and U are considered vowel letters, since (except when silent) they represent vowels, although I and U represent consonants in words such as "onion" and "quail" respectively. The letter Y sometimes represents a consonant (as in "young") and sometimes a vowel (as in "myth").

  6. Welsh orthography - Wikipedia

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    The grapheme k was also used, unlike in the modern alphabet, particularly before front vowels. [4] The disuse of this letter is at least partly due to the publication of William Salesbury's Welsh New Testament and William Morgan's Welsh Bible, whose English printers, with type letter frequencies set for English and Latin, did not have enough k ...

  7. Carian language - Wikipedia

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    Many Carian phonemes were represented by multiple letter forms in various locations. The Egypto-Carian dialect seems to have preserved semivowels w, j, and ý lost or left unwritten in other varieties. Two Carian letters have unknown phonetic values: 𐊱 and 𐋆. [12] The letter 𐊶 τ 2 may have been equivalent to 𐋇 τ.

  8. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]

  9. List of legal abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    UCMJ — Uniform Code of Military Justice (Laws of the U.S. military) UKPC – Privy Council of the United Kingdom; UKSC – Supreme Court of the United Kingdom; UPC — Uniform Probate Code; U.S. — United States Reports (beginning with v. 502 (1991)) [6] USC — United States Code (A free website for the full text is at U.S. Code. This text ...