In French, the period only follows an abbreviation if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its antecedent: " M ." is the abbreviation for " monsieur " while " Mme " is that for " madame ".

The printed edition ( Presburg, 1838 ), prepared by M. L. Bislichis, contains: ( 1 ) Preface ; ( 2 ) a treatise of eighteen chapters on the incorporeality of God ; ( 3 ) correspondence ; ( 4 ) a treatise, called Sefer ha-Yarḥi, included also in letter 58 ; ( 5 ) a defense of The Guide and its author by Shem-Tob Palquera ( Grätz, Gesch.

The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y: The letter Y stands for the consonant in " yoke ", the vowel in " myth " and the vowel in " funny ", and " yummy " for both consonant and vowel, for examples ; W almost always represents a consonant except in rare words ( mostly loanwords from Welsh ) like " crwth " " cwm ".

The second letter describes the thermal characteristic of its source region: T for tropical, P for polar, A for Arctic or Antarctic, M for monsoon, E for equatorial, and S for superior air ( dry air formed by significant downward motion in the atmosphere ).

* " Dear Dad ", episode twelve of the first season of M * A * S * H, used the framing device of a letter written by Hawkeye Pierce to his father to describe the events of the episode.

Raphael Mendez advised saying the letter " M ".

The earliest use of the term " Judeo-Christian " in the historical sense dates to 1829 in the missionary journal of Joseph Wolff, and before that as " Judeo Christian " in a letter from Alexander M ' Caul dated October 17, 1821.

Reflecting the changed mood, the Conservative M. P Alfred Duff Cooper wrote in a letter to The Times :“ Some of us are getting rather tired of the sanctimonious attitude which seeks to take upon our shoulders the blame for every crime committed in Europe.

M ( named em ) is the thirteenth letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu ( Μ, μ ).

Originally the letter M in M-theory was taken from membrane, a construct designed to generalize the strings of string theory.

Some, including Sheldon Glashow, speculate that Witten chose the letter because it resembles an inverted W. According to Witten, " M can stand variously for ' magic ', ' mystery ', or ' matrix ', according to one's taste.

The letter M is located at the end of the third row to the right of the letter L rather than on the fourth row to the right of the N, the letters X and C are reversed, and most punctuation marks are in different positions or are missing entirely.

The Australian letter to number mapping was: A = 1, B = 2, F = 3, J = 4, L = 5, M = 6, U = 7, W = 8, X = 9, Y = 0, so the phone number BX 3701 was in fact 29 3701.

Most stars are currently classified using the letters O, B, A, F, G, K, and M, where O stars are the hottest and the letter sequence indicates successively cooler stars up to the coolest M class.

An em space was the width of a capital letter " M " – as wide as it was high – while an en space referred to a space half the width of its height ( usually the dimensions for a capital " N ").

Miss M. Verne McNeely wrote a letter of protest to the League of Nations and one of despair to Milford, who tried to comfort her.

The letter “ L ” in “ LGM ” indicates that the missile is silo-launched ; the “ G ” indicates that it is designed to attack ground targets ; the “ M ” indicates that it is a guided missile.

His third memoir on property was a letter to the Fourierist, M. Considérant ; he was tried for it at Besançon but was acquitted.

VHS machines, in contrast to Betamax and Beta's predecessor U-matic, use an " M-loading " system, also known as M-lacing, where the tape is drawn out by two threading posts and wrapped around more than 180 degrees of the head drum ( and also other tape transport components ) in a shape roughly approximating the letter M.

In 1988, Callaghan's wife Audrey, a former chairman ( 1969 – 1982 ) of Great Ormond Street Hospital, spotted a letter to a newspaper which pointed out that the copyright of Peter Pan, which had been assigned by J. M. Barrie to the hospital, was about to expire.

On Finnish coins the first letter of the Mint of Finland ’ s President and CEO ( M for Raimo Makkonen ) will also be replaced with the Mint ’ s logo.

The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.

I saw that letter.

Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.

And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.

When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

His letter had suggested we meet at my hotel at noon on Sunday, and I came into the lobby as the clock struck twelve.

Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.

In Figure 2, the points in the network are designated by a letter accompanied by a number.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

A letter awaited her at Princeton.

`` 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.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.

He closes his `` letter '' by demanding that Dunkirk be demolished, that the Pretender be forced to move farther away from the coast of England, and that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a better understanding.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

Every letter answers itself in a couple of weeks ''.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

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.

For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

The `` orphaned poems '' mentioned in the letter to Meynell comprised a group of five sonnets, which were published in the 1913 edition of Thompson's works under the heading `` Ad Amicam '', plus certain other completed pieces and rough drafts gathered together in one of the familiar exercise books.

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 ''.

And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.