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  2. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  3. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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    American English pronunciation of "no highway cowboys" /noʊ ˈhaɪweɪ ˈkaʊbɔɪz/, showing five diphthongs: / oʊ, aɪ, eɪ, aʊ, ɔɪ / A diphthong (/ ˈ d ɪ f θ ɒ ŋ, ˈ d ɪ p-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; [1] from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice' and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is ...

  4. This Is Why “W” Is Pronounced Double U and Not Double V - AOL

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    This Latin alphabet was then forced to come up with a symbol to represent the sound of the “w.” According to GrammarPhobia, this 7th-century problem was remedied by the symbol “uu,” which ...

  5. W - Wikipedia

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    It is the fifteenth most frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 2.56% in words. Other languages In Europe languages with w in native words are in a central-western European zone between Cornwall and Poland: English, German , Low German , Dutch , Frisian , Welsh , Cornish , Breton , Walloon , Polish , Kashubian ...

  6. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    no diphthongs except occasional word-final ai, only consonant combinations besides double consonants and (n)ng consist of r + consonant old spellings (now abolished in the spelling reform of 1973) sometimes included acute accent, circumflex, tilde, and/or the letter kra ( Kʼ ĸ ): Kʼânâĸ vs. Qaanaaq .

  7. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Additionally, the v–v or u-u ligature double-u (W w) was in use. In the year 1011, a monk named Byrhtferð recorded the traditional order of the Old English alphabet. [ 2 ] He listed the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet first, including the ampersand , then 5 additional English letters, starting with the Tironian note ond ...

  8. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...

  9. Wikipedia:List of two-letter combinations - Wikipedia

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    This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet.A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).