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  2. Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    The Bayer designation naming scheme for stars typically uses the first Greek letter, α, for the brightest star in each constellation, and runs through the alphabet before switching to Latin letters. In mathematical finance , the Greeks are the variables denoted by Greek letters used to describe the risk of certain investments.

  3. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    While IPA provides a single letter for the coronal places of articulation (for all consonants but fricatives), these do not always have to be used exactly. When dealing with a particular language, the letters may be treated as specifically dental, alveolar, or post-alveolar, as appropriate for that language, without diacritics.

  4. Thorn (letter) - Wikipedia

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    The word was never pronounced as /j/, as in yes , though, even when so written. [6] The first printing of the King James Version of the Bible in 1611 used y e for "the" in places such as Job 1:9, John 15:1, and Romans 15:29. [7] It also used y t as an abbreviation for "that", in places such as 2 Corinthians 13:7

  5. Y - Wikipedia

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    The oldest direct ancestor of the letter Y was the Semitic letter waw (pronounced as [w]), from which also come F, U, V, and W. See F for details. The Greek and Latin alphabets developed from the Phoenician form of this early alphabet. The form of the modern letter Y is derived from the Greek letter upsilon. It dates back to the Latin of the ...

  6. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    The capitalization of the J is a result of the ij digraph's history as a ligature (writing), a Dutch alternative to the letter 'Y'. In fact, on old maps, the IJ was sometimes marked as the Y. Imalone: A very lonely place in Wisconsin. Inaccessible Island: Can be reached by sea. Incești: Must have some interesting family trees Inchmore: Yes ...

  7. Latin phonology and orthography - Wikipedia

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    This letter represented the close front rounded vowel, both short and long: /y yː/. [39] Latin did not have this sound as a native phoneme, and speakers tended to pronounce such loanwords with /u uː/ in Old Latin and /i iː/ in Classical and Late Latin if they were unable to produce /y yː/ .

  8. Voiced palatal lateral approximant - Wikipedia

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    Many languages that were previously thought to have a palatal lateral approximant actually have a lateral approximant that is, broadly, alveolo-palatal; that is to say, it is articulated at a place in-between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate (excluded), and it may be variously described as alveolo-palatal, lamino-postalveolar, [1] or ...

  9. Phonemic orthography - Wikipedia

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    In the first case, the exact one-to-one correspondence may be lost (for example, some phoneme may be represented by a digraph instead of a single letter), but the "regularity" is retained: there is still an algorithm (but a more complex one) for predicting the spelling from the pronunciation and vice versa. In the second case, true irregularity ...