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  2. NATO phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. Letter names for unambiguous communication Not to be confused with International Phonetic Alphabet. Alphabetic code words A lfa N ovember B ravo O scar C harlie P apa D elta Q uebec E cho R omeo F oxtrot S ierra G olf T ango H otel U niform I ndia V ictor J uliett W hiskey K ilo X ray L ...

  3. Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples ob-, o-, oc-, of-, og-, op-, os-[1]against: Latin: ob: obduracy, obdurate, obduration ...

  4. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The primary mark of punctuation was the interpunct, which was used as a word divider, though it fell out of use after 200 AD. Old Roman cursive script, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the Latin ...

  5. Jeep - Wikipedia

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    Many explanations of the origin of the word jeep have proven difficult to verify. The most widely held theory is that the military designation GP (for Government Purposes or General Purpose) was slurred into the word Jeep in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV (for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle) has become known as the Humvee.

  6. Category:Etymologies - Wikipedia

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    List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names; List of lilioid families; List of malvid families; List of nitrogen-fixing-clade families; List of plant family names with etymologies; List of plant genera named for people (A–C) List of plant genera named for people (D–J) List of plant genera named for people (K–P)

  7. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    In general, however, the Romans did not use the traditional (Semitic-derived) names as in Greek, but adopted the simplified names of the Etruscans, which derived from saying the sounds of the letters: the vowels stood for themselves, the names of the stop consonant letters were formed by adding the neutral vowel e, which in Latin became /eː ...

  8. Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples jac-lie: Latin: jaceo "to be thrown" adjacency, adjacent, circumjacency, circumjacent ...

  9. J - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 December 2024. 10th letter of the Latin alphabet This article is about the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet. For other uses, see J (disambiguation). For technical reasons, "J#" redirects here. For the programming language, see J Sharp. For the Cyrillic letter Ј, see Je (Cyrillic). J J j Usage ...