The most common example is the letter ⟨ x ⟩ which normally represents the consonant cluster ( for example, in the word ex-wife, pronounced ).

For example, when representing a vowel, the letter ⟨ y ⟩ in non-word-final positions, represents the sound in some words borrowed from Greek ( reflecting an original upsilon ), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter ⟨ i ⟩.

However, they are distinguished from each other orthographically by the addition of the letter ⟨ h ⟩.

For instance the letter ⟨ e ⟩ in the word cottage indicates that the preceding ⟨ g ⟩ is pronounced, rather than the more common value of ⟨ g ⟩ in word-final position as the sound, such as in tag.

The letter ⟨ e ⟩ also often marks an altered pronunciation of a preceding vowel.

For example, the letter ⟨ i ⟩ in the word cinema has a sound-representing function ( representing the sound ) and a pronunciation-marking function ( marking the ⟨ c ⟩ as having the value opposed to the value ).

Although the letter ⟨ t ⟩ is pronounced by some speakers with aspiration at the beginning of words, this is never indicated in the spelling, and, indeed, this phonetic detail is probably not noticeable to the average native speaker not trained in phonetics.

The letter ' G ' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of ⟨ c ⟩ to distinguish voiced from voiceless.

" 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.

The 1949 Principles of the International Phonetic Association recommends using 10px for advanced voiced velar plosives ( denoted by Latin small letter script G ) and 10px for regular ones where the two are contrasted, but this suggestion was never accepted by phoneticians in general, and today ⟨ 10px ⟩ is the symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet, with ⟨ 10px ⟩ acknowledged as an acceptable variant, and is more often used in printed materials.

In English, the letter represents either a voiced postalveolar affricate (" soft G "), as in giant, ginger, and geology ; a voiced velar plosive (" hard G "), as in goose, gargoyle, and game ; or, in the digraph ⟨ ng ⟩, either a velar nasal as in length or a blend of the latter with the hard G as in jungle ; or, in the digraph ⟨ dg ⟩ as in bridge.

⟨ gh ⟩ which came about when the letter yogh was removed from the alphabet, and took various values including,,, and.

Strictly speaking, the letter ⟨ g ⟩ is not present in other scripts, but the sound it represents is present in many world languages, and is represented by many different graphemes.

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For example, the sound of the English letter ⟨ t ⟩ may be transcribed in IPA with a single letter,, or with a letter plus diacritics,, depending on how precise one wishes to be.

In Ancient Greek, ⟨ Χ ⟩ and ⟨ Ψ ⟩ were among several variants of the same letter, used originally for and later, in western areas such as Arcadia, as a simplification of the digraph ⟨ ΧΣ ⟩ for.

The optic chiasm or optic chiasma ( Greek, " crossing ", from the Greek ' to mark with an X ', after the Greek letter ' Χ ', chi ) is the part of the brain where the optic nerves ( CN II ) partially cross.

In rhetoric, chiasmus ( from the, chiázō, " to shape like the letter Χ ") is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point ; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism.

Chi ( uppercase Χ, lowercase χ ; ) is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced as or in English.

In Plato's Timaeus, it is explained that the two bands which form the soul of the world cross each other like the letter Χ.

Because this variant of the Greek alphabet was used in Italy, the Latin alphabet borrowed Χ rather than Ξ as the Latin letter X.

He then divided following precise mathematical proportions, cutting the compound lengthways, fixed the resulting two bands in their middle, like in the letter Χ ( chi ), and connected them at their ends, to have two crossing circles.

The signature " Χ " displayed on the funnel of Celebrity ships is the Greek letter chi, for " Chandris ".< ref name =" MM "> Maritime Matters: Sun Vista, retrieved 29.

The Cyrillic letter Kha was derived from the Greek letter Chi ( Χ χ ).

* Χ χ: Greek letter Chi

* Chi ( letter ), the Greek letter ( uppercase Χ, lowercase χ );

Chirico, ( Japanese transliteration, " Kiriko "), is from the Greek letter " chi " ( Χ ), Fyana ( Fuiana ) is from Greek letter " phi " ( Φ ), and Ypsilon ( Ipushiron ) from the Greek letter " upsilon " ( Υ ).

For example, the sound ( the sh in shoe ) was originally represented with the letter ⟨ c ⟩ in English, but with the letter ⟨ x ⟩ in French.

* The letter е is never read as ё ~ ( the letter ё does not exist in Church Slavonic writing at all ).

These codes were of the form ~ XX where XX is a 2 letter code.

~ Jean-Luc Godard in a letter to Skolimowski in the late 1960s.

These are, which only has a glyph for ; ( also ), which only has ~ kpa ;, which only has ( though older records report that letter pulled double duty for ); and, which only has.

Byzantine Greeks often inscribed the palindrome, " Wash sins, not only face " (" Nīpson anomēmata mē mōnan ōpsin ", engraving " ps ", the single Greek letter Ψ, psi ), on baptismal fonts.

* Psi ( Greek ) ( Ψ, ψ ) 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet

Instead it created a sign for a long e with it, keeping the letter Ε for the short e. The digamma dropped out, and Ψ and Ξ came into existence, bringing the Attic alphabet to its classic 24-letter form.

Psi ( or ; uppercase Ψ, lowercase ψ ; after Greek ) is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 700.

' Psi ' is the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet ( Ψ ), which is used as the software's logo.

Psi ( Ѱ, ѱ ) is a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter psi ( Ψ, ψ ).

The shape of the rune may be derived from that a letter expressing / x / in certain Old Italic alphabets (), which was in turn derived from the Greek letter Ψ which had the value of / kʰ / ( rather than / ps /) in the Western Greek alphabet.

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

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.

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 ''.

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

In Europe, Premier Clemenceau, showing his animal proclivities as the `` Tiger of France '', asked Pershing by letter for the creation of special houses where the sexual desires of American men could be satisfied.

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

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.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

Perhaps, in that short piece or letter written to Hartlib in which he sketched his scheme for educating young men, he merely overlooked that phase of their exercises.

Juanita drooped about the place, wearing a haunted, brooding look, which Kate attributed to the baby's death, until the day a letter came for her addressed to `` Miss Juanita Fitzroy '', bearing a Grafton postmark.

Kate tried to contain her curiosity and foreboding at what the letter portended, at what involvement existed for Juanita.

I lived to see an envelope of hers in the morning mail and to lock myself in my room in the afternoon to reread her letter for the tenth time and finally prepare an answer.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

You may apply for such an extension by filing Form 2688, Application For Extension Of Time To File, with the District Director of Internal Revenue for your district, or you may make your application in a letter.

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 ''.

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

Another less ambiguous case read as follows: `` The bearer of this letter has served me for two years to his complete satisfaction.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

Each letter contained a postage-prepaid return envelope by regular mail for addresses in the Pacific Northwest, and by airmail for those outside the Pacific Northwest.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

Those whom I wish to address with this letter are for the most part unknown to me.