In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

In the Finnish and Swedish alphabets, å, ä and ö collate as separate letters after z, the others as variants of their base letter.

" According to some records, the original seventh letter, ⟨ z ⟩, had been purged from the Latin alphabet somewhat earlier in the 3rd century BC by the Roman censor Appius Claudius, who found it distasteful and foreign.

In spelling sushi, its first letter s is replaced with z when a prefix is attached, as in nigirizushi, due to consonant mutation called rendaku in Japanese.

When the use of the letter yogh was discontinued, it was often replaced by the similar-looking letter z, hence Zetland, the mis-spelled form used to describe the pre-1975 county council.

* Possessive personal pronouns, serving as either noun-equivalents or adjective-equivalents, do not use an apostrophe, even when they end in s. The complete list of those ending in the letter s or the corresponding sound / s / or / z / but not taking an apostrophe is ours, yours, his, hers, its, theirs, and whose.

It was first used for the sound of the voiceless alveolar affricate in old Spanish and stems from the Visigothic form of the letter " z " (), whose upper loop was lengthened and reinterpreted as a " c ", whereas its lower loop became the diminished appendage, the cedilla.

It was first used for the sound of the voiceless alveolar affricate in old Spanish and stems from the Visigothic form of the letter " z ".

depends on the way the sound is written in standard English spelling, as also whether the sound is written with the ordinary " z " letter or with a special backwards " z " letter ( which replaces the " s " of standard spelling where it represents a voiced sound, and which visually resembles an angular form of the letter " s ").

For example, the name of the backwards " z " letter is " zess ".

Although these names suggest it is a ligature or a diacritical variant of the letter o, it is considered a separate letter in Norwegian and Danish, and it is alphabetized after " z "— thus z, æ, ø, and å.

Modern Swedish is written with a 29-letter alphabet consisting of the modern 26-letter Latin alphabet plus 3 other letters: ' å ', ' ä ' and ' ö ', added after the letter " z ".

Note how the 3 added letters are ranked after the letter ( z ) and hence words beginning with those letters would be found near the end of a typical Swedish dictionary.

In the German alphabet, ß ( Unicode U + 00DF ) is a consonant letter that evolved as a ligature of " long s and z " ( ſz ) and " long s over round s " ( ſs ).

The present-day German letter ß ( das Eszett " the ess-zed ", or scharfes-ess " the sharp S "; also used in Low German and historical Upper Sorbian orthographies ) is considered to have originated in a ligature of ſz ( which is supported by the fact that the second part of the ß glyph usually resembles a Fraktur z ), or ſs ( see ß for more ), or some Tironian notes.

`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

On April 11th he wrote an open letter in The Advocate, making it known `` to the world that Jas. W. Robinson is by his own admission a base liar and a slanderer ''.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

But when you write to Congresswoman Church, bless her heart, your letter is answered fully and completely.

An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic.

The `` C '' club is composed of the men of the College who have won an official letter in Carleton athletics.

Follow pool-care instructions to the letter, and be sure that one person ( in the family or not ) is regularly responsible for each aspect of the job, with no chance for claiming, `` It wasn't my turn ''.

Still another approach to the changeable letter type of sign is a modular unit introduced by Merritt Products, Azusa, Calif..

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

It is possible to identify the test procedure completely with a code consisting of a Roman Numeral, a letter, and an Arabic number.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Some pastors write a letter the same night the decision is reported by the visitors.

His letter to his daughter on the pains of growing up is surely as trenchant, forthright, and warmly understanding a piece of advice as ever a grown-up penned to a sensitive child, and with just the right tone of unpatronizing good humor.

James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions.

But while she is able to tell her retarded family about the new world she has seen open before her, Ronnie has not been able to observe her progress, and instead of appearing at a family party to be looked over like a new bull, he sends Beatie a letter of dismissal.

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.

The earliest certain ancestor of " A " is aleph ( also called ' aleph ), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet ( which, by consisting entirely of consonants, is an abjad rather than a true alphabet ).

Animalia is an alliterative alphabet book and contains twenty-six illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet.

Based on letter appearances and names, it is believed to be based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.

It need hardly be remarked that Thompson was not generally known for his scrupulosity about keeping his social engagements, which makes his irritation in this letter all the more significant.

The uppercase letter alpha is not generally used as a symbol because it tends to be rendered identically to the uppercase Latin A.

The black letter law refers to the basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute.

In common law, black letter legal doctrine is an informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the courts and / or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

In practice a groveling letter of apology to the court is sufficient to ward off this possibility, and in any event the warrant is generally ' backed for bail ' i. e. bail will be granted once the arrest has been made and a location where the person can be found in future established.

Today English speakers generally attempt something close to the modern Spanish pronunciation when saying Quixote ( Quijote ), as, although the traditional English spelling pronunciation pronouncing the name with the value of the letter x in modern English is still sometimes used, resulting in or.

This letter is now generally regarded as one of the undisputed works of Paul.

Although the Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme, there are some historical and morphological deviations from this: for example the initial letter ' h ' in words, preservation of the morpheme in declension of the word ( writing b, g, d in places where p, k, t is pronounced )

Such fannish activity ( or " fanac ") including writing to letter columns in science fiction magazines, having been published in fanzines, or having participated in science fiction oriented clubs, or just generally doing fannish things.

William had been trying to influence English politics for well over a year, letting Grand Pensionary Gaspar Fagel publish an open letter to the English people in November 1687 deploring the religious policy of James, which action had generally been interpreted as a covert bid for kingship.

In consequence of the bitter controversy with Luther that resulted, Agricola in 1540 left Wittenberg secretly for Berlin, where he published a letter addressed to Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, which was generally interpreted as a recantation of his obnoxious views.

Bret W. Davis writes, for example, " The first philosophical development of the idea of nihilism is generally ascribed to Friedrich Jacobi, who in a famous letter criticized Fichte's idealism as falling into nihilism.

Also, courts when dealing with such cases will tend to look to the letter of the law at the time, even in regimes where the law as it was written was generally disregarded in practice by its own authors.

The slope of a line in the plane containing the x and y axes is generally represented by the letter m, and is defined as the change in the y coordinate divided by the corresponding change in the x coordinate, between two distinct points on the line.

In his letter of resignation to the President and the Attorney General he wrote: " It seems to me that the policy of raids against large numbers of individuals is generally unwise and very apt to result in injustice.

This document is now generally accepted to have been a fabrication, validating the declaration that Zinoviev made in a letter dated 27 October 1924:

Ukrainian orthography is based on the phonemic principle, with one letter generally corresponding to one phoneme, although there are a number of exceptions.

Opening with a letter to the playwright Halcott Glover, the book takes a variable but generally satirical, cynical and critical posture, and belabours Victorian and Edwardian cant.

Boas ' student, the linguist Edward Sapir later noted that also English speakers pronounce sounds differently even when they think they are pronouncing the same sound, for example few English speakers realize that the sounds written with the letter < t > in the words " tick " and " stick " are phonetically different, the first being generally affricated and the other aspirated-a speaker of a language where this contrast is meaningful would instantly perceive them as different sounds and tend not to see them as different realizations of a single phoneme.

This is confirmed by letter by his mother, who while a social climber and generally frivolous, is very loving to Grace and has never told her about her parentage.

They are generally arranged so that the sending address printed on the letter is visible, saving the sender from having to duplicate the address on the envelope itself.

Such a name generally begins with the same letter as their given name, but not always.

It is generally agreed that the first reference to " lutefisk " is in a letter by Swedish king Gustav I in 1540, and what seems to be a description of the preparation process in the Swedish archbishop Olaus Magnus's ( 1490 – 1557 ) personal writings from 1555.

Southey's mind was giving way when he wrote a last letter to his friend Landor in 1839, but he continued to mention Landor's name when generally incapable of mentioning any one.

Henkes and Bindervoet generally summarise the critical consensus when they argue that, between the thematically indicative opening and closing chapters, the book concerns " two big questions " which are never resolved: what is the nature of protagonist HCE ’ s secret sin, and what was the letter, written by his wife ALP, about?