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The letter F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is ef, spelled eff when used as a verb. On keyboards, often the F and J keys (or occasionally the D and K keys) have a raised dot or bar on their surface, perceptible to the touch, to assist in typing, especially for the blind. All other keys can be found with their relative positions around these two keys as the index finger normally rests on F and J keys (or the middle finger in the case of D and K). F - Hi ...

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F developed from the digraph FH that stood for /f/. The Etruscans were the inventors of this digraph; F on its own stood for /w/ in Etruscan as in Greek (where the letter F, called Digamma in Greek, has disappeared due to the fact that the /w/ phoneme itself disappeared.) The origin of F is the Semitic letter wâw that also represented /w/ and originally probably represented a hook or a club. The minuscule f is not to be confused with ſ, the archaic long s (or medial s). For example, "sinfuln ...

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In English, F represents the voiceless labiodental fricative ([f] in IPA), although in certain words, such as "of", it can be a voiced labiodental fricative ([v] in IPA). The digraph "ff", pronounced [f], is often used at the end of words (and, in rare personal or placenames, at the beginning). Both initial and final F are commonly us ...

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The NATO phonetic alphabet represents F as Foxtrot. In international Morse code the letter F is dit dit dah dit, ··-· In Braille the letter F is represented as ⠋ (in Unicode), with the dot pattern, The International maritime signal flag for F is, F - Computing. In Unicode the capital F is codepoint U+0046 and the lowercase f is U+0066. The ASCII code for capital F is 70 and for lowercase f is 102; or ...

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F, F - History, F - Phonetic use, F - Alternative representations, F - Computing, F - Ligatures, F - Meanings for F, F - Variants of F

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