A letter is a written message from one party to another. Letters are usually intended to be received by someone far away. Before widespread availability of typewriters and computers, letters were always written by hand. Nowadays, letters are only widely used by companies who send out letters to large numbers of people, who may not have access to the internet for e-mail. The term letter is sometimes used for e-mail messages with a formal letter-like format. Historically, letters exist from the time of ancient Egypt and Sumer, al ...

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The letter Ö occurs in the Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Sámi, and Turkish alphabets, where it represents the vowel sound [ø], and in Swedish and Icelandic alphabets, representing [œ] (e.g. "kött") or [ɶ] (e.g. "dörr"). It is collated as an independent letter, usually by placing it at the end of the alphabet. Note that unlike the O-umlaut (see below), the letter ...

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Nion is the Irish name of the fifth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚅ, probably meaning "fork". In Old Irish, the letter name was Nin, a name which is notable for referring both to a specific letter, and to any of the Ogham letters in general. The Bríatharogaim have: costud síde "establishing of peace" bág ban "boast of women" bág maise "boast of beauty" The glossators of the Ogam Tract and the Auraicept na n-Éces s ...

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Alpha (uppercase Α, lowercase α) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It derives from the Phoenician letter 'Aleph. Letters that arose from Alpha include the Latin A and the Cyrillic letter A. Plutarch in Moralia presents a discussion on the question of why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet. Plutarch's speaker suggests that Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly have settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, "placed alpha first b ...

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Beth or Bet is the second letter of many Semetic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Beta, Latin B, the Cyrillic equivalent, the Paleo-Hebrew equivalent, and the Aramaic equivalent, which gave rise to the Hebrew equivalent. Other related archivesAramaic, B, Beta, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Phoenician, Semetic alphabets, letter

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Úr is the Irish name of the eighteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚒ, meaning "clay", "earth", "soil". In Old Irish, the letter name was also written Úir. Its phonetic value is [u] or [u:]. Other related archivesIrish, Ogham, Old Irish, clay, earth, soil

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Tinne is the Irish name of the eighth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚈ, meaning "ingot". Its phonetic value is [t]. Other related archivesIrish, Ogham, ingot

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Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy in 1908 to an Indian Newspaper which sparked a relationship between the pacifist and another well-known anti-violence father figure, Mohandas Gandhi who was stationed in South Africa at the time and just beginning his life-long journey of being an activist. The letter, along with Tolstoy's unarguable views and preaching, began Mohandas Gandhi's views about non-violent resistance which was, incidently, a main part of Tolstoy's own view of C

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Fearn is the Irish name of the third letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚃ, meaning "alder-tree". In Old Irish, the letter name was Fern, which is related to Welsh gwern(en). Its Primitive Irish root was *wernā and its phonetic value then was [w]. Its Old Irish and modern phonetic value is [f]. Other related archivesIrish, Ogham, Old Irish, Welsh, alder-tree

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Straif is the Irish name of the fourteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚎ. Old Irish spelling variants are straif, straiph, zraif, sraif, sraiph, sraib. The Bríatharogam kennings for the letter are: tressam rúamnai "strongest reddening" mórad rún "increase of secrets" saigid nél "seeking of clouds" The probable meaning of the name is "sulphur". The first two kennings could be explained ...

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Phi (upper case Φ, lower case φ or φ) is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. It is pronounced fee by modern Greeks, or fie (depending on context and, often, personal inclination), representing the phoneme 'f'. In Ancient Greek it represented a strongly aspirated 'p'. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 500. The lower-case letter φ (or often its variant, » Phi letter: Encyclopedia - Phi letter

Ceirt (queirt) ᚊ is a letter of the Ogham alphabet, transcribed as Q. It expresses the Primitive Irish labiovelar phoneme. The 14th century Auraicept na n-Éces glosses the name as aball, meaning "apple tree". The Bríatharogam (kennings) for the letter are: Morainn mac Moín: Clithar baiscill "the shelter of a lunatic" Maic ind Óc: Bríg anduini "substance of an insignificant person" Con Culainn ...

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Aleph (ʾāleph; also spelled Alef) is the first letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic (see alif). Aleph originally expresses the glottal stop (IPA [ʔ]), usually transliterated as ʾ, a symbol based on the Greek spiritus lenis

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Muin is the Irish name of the eleventh letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚋ, meaning "neck", which is related to Welsh mwn and Latin monile. Its phonetic value is [m]. Other related archivesIrish, Latin, Ogham, Welsh, neck

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Ruis (ᚂ) is the fifteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, derived from ruise "red". Its Proto-Indo-European root was *reudh- 'red'. Its phonetic value is [r]. Other related archivesOgham, Proto-Indo-European, red

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Chi (upper case Χ, lower case χ) is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 600. The 'ch' in 'chi' is a voiceless velar fricative. In front of "light" vowels (e, i, oi, ai, y) it is prounounced like the 'ch' in German 'ich' or some variants of 'h' in the English 'hew' or 'human'. In front of "dark" vowels (a, o, ou) and of consonants, it is pronounced like the 'ch' in German 'ach' or in Scottish 'loch'. The upper-case letter Χ is ...

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Ailm is the Irish name of the twentieth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚐ. Its phonetic value is [a]. The "Tree Alphabet" glossators identify it with the pine. The original meaning of the name is unknown. The Bríatharogam kennings all refer to the sound [a] and not to the name, either as the sound of a "groan", or to the Irish vocative particle, á. Thurneysen maintained that Ailm, Beithe was a influenced by Alpha, Beta, but while beithe is an actual Irish word, ailm< ...

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Sail is the Irish name of the fourth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚄ, meaning "willow". The name is related to Welsh helyg(en) and Latin salix. Its Proto-Indo-European root was *sal-. Its phonetic value is [s]. Other related archivesIrish, Latin, Ogham, Proto-Indo-European, Welsh, willow

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Dair is the Irish name of the seventh letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚇ, meaning "oak", which is related to Welsh derw(en). Its Proto-Indo-European root was *deru- 'oak'. Its phonetic value is [d]. Other related archivesIrish, Ogham, Proto-Indo-European, Welsh, oak

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