The last upper-case letter used by Bayer was Q.

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 original title for these drawings was Mr Punch's face is the letter Q and the new title " cartoon " was intended to be ironic, a reference to the self-aggrandizing posturing of Westminster politicians.

On the NASDAQ the identifying fifth letter " Q " at the end of a stock symbol indicates the company is in bankruptcy ( formerly the " Q " was placed in front of the pre-existing stock symbol ; a celebrated example was Penn Central, whose symbol was originally " PC " and became " QPC " after the company filed Chapter 11 in 1970 ).

* Upon approaching the port, ships must display a quarantine flag, which has the letter ' Q ' on it, and wait for admittance into the port.

He uses O instead of I, Q instead of L, R instead of F, and S instead of N. The resemblance to the letters is a bit more strained ( most notably that the " O ," a straight line, bears no resemblance to an actual letter O ), but this scheme has the advantage that it uses 12 consecutive letters of the alphabet.

Q ( named cue ) is the seventeenth letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

The plain yellow flag (" Quebec " or Q in international maritime signal flags ), probably derives its letter symbol for its initial use in quarantine, but this flag in modern times indicates the opposite — a ship that declares itself free of quarantinable disease, and requests boarding and routine port inspection.

On the soda gun behind most bars, tonic water is designated by the letter " Q " representing quinine.

Gene Roddenberry chose the letter " Q " in honour of his friend, Janet Quarton.

Television episodes and novels featuring Q often have titles that play on the letter " Q ".

While the letter Q in the 8th edition only listed the letter Q itself, the 11th edition also listed quantum satis, quenell, quilt and quisling.

Because no constellation has a Latin-letter Bayer designation greater than Q, the letter R was chosen as a starting point so as to avoid confusion with letter spectral types or the ( now rarely used ) Latin-letter Bayer designations.

First Letter-The letter R or the letter “ Q ” appears as the first letter and distinguishes strategic / world-wide routing indicators from call signs, address groups and theater routing indicators.

The lions embrace a stylised letter Q, the crab rests atop the letter with flames rising directly above it, and the fairies are each sheltering below a lion.

`` 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.

These are one capital letter in length, and the letters are reserved so they are not permitted to be given for the names of specific elements.

This letter reserved 10 % of the loot for the Crown, and Henry Gilbert's The Book of Pirates suggests that the King may have fronted some of the money for the voyage himself.

In a letter of about 446 to a successor bishop of Thessalonica, Anastasius, Leo reproached him for the way he had treated one of the metropolitan bishops subject to him ; after giving various instructions about the functions entrusted to Anastasius and stressing that certain powers were reserved to the pope himself, Leo wrote: " The care of the universal Church should converge towards Peter's one seat, and nothing anywhere should be separated from its Head.

In algebraic notation, the usual modern way of recording chess games, the letter N stands for the knight ( K is reserved for the king ); in descriptive chess notation, Kt is sometimes used instead, mainly in older literature.

Strauss's argument is not that the medieval writers he studies reserved one exoteric meaning for the many ( hoi polloi ) and an esoteric, hidden one for the few ( hoi aristoi ), but that, through rhetorical stratagems including self-contradiction and hyperboles, these writers succeeded in conveying their proper meaning at the tacit heart of their writings — a heart or message irreducible to " the letter " or historical dimension of texts.

In 1841 he entered the diplomatic service as secretary of legation in St. Petersburg, Russia, but resigned his post within three months, because, according a letter that he wrote to his mother, of the harsh climate, the expenses living there and his reserved habits.

The IATA code starts from the second letter of the name ( Key West ) because initial " K " is a reserved block ; the ICAO code restores the K in the identification as " K " is the first position ICAO code used for airports located in the Continental United States.

The next day Watson follows Holmes's instructions to the letter and finds himself waiting in the reserved first class coach for his friend, but only an elderly Italian priest is there.

On February 5, 1965, in a moment of discouragement, he addressed a public letter to the media to lament the fate Quebec society reserved to those who advocated independence.

Strauss's argument is not that the medieval writers he studies reserved one exoteric meaning for the many ( hoi polloi ) and an esoteric / hidden one for the few ( hoi aristoi ), but that said writers succeeded in conveying meaning proper at the heart of their writings — a heart or message irreducible to " the letter " or historical dimension of texts.

: Beginning at the northwestern angle of lot number ten, granted to William Woodforde, on the Cold Stream ; thence running by the magnet of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven north seventy-two degrees west eight chains to the eastern line of a reserved road, thence following the several courses of the said road by the base line of the lots in a northerly direction to the northwest angle of the lot letter “ I ”, granted to William Bain ; thence south seventy-two degrees and thirty minutes east by the magnet of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, to meet the eastern line of a reserved road ; thence northerly along said road to the northwest angle of lot number fifty-five, in range 5, Johnville ; thence easterly to the southeast angle of lot number fifty-six, on said range 5 of Johnville ; thence easterly in a direct line to the northwest angle of lot number eighty, in block 2, Glassville ; thence easterly along the northern line of said lot and its eastern prolongation to the County line ; thence along the said County line in a southwesterly direction to meet the eastern prolongation of the north line of the said grant to William Woodforde ; thence along the said prolongation and line westerly to the place of beginning.

One example of a reserved code being reused before reunification was the letter L which was originally planned for Leipzig, but was given to the newly formed Hessian district Lahn-Dill-Kreis in the 1980s as hopes for reunification faded away.

Outraged upon learning that it was true, the usually reserved Bouquet called Croghan " illiterate, imprudent " impudent ," readings vary, and ill bred " in a letter to General Gage complaining of Croghan's " ridiculous display of his own importance .".

All two letter prefixes are reserved for the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, followed by an identifier assigned by that countries national library authority.

Just as hesed, or kindness, is by definition beyond what a person is legally obligated to do, so too a hassid does beyond what the letter of the law requires of him, and is a term that is reserved for the especially pious.

One of Blondi's puppies was reserved for Eva Braun's sister Gretl, and Eva sent Gretl a letter containing a photo of Blondi and three of her puppies, Gretl's being indicated with an arrow.

Due to Bourget's earlier excommunication of the Institut, reinforced by a letter written by Bourget that year, Brown was told that Guibord could not be buried in the sanctified area of the cemetery reserved for Roman Catholics, although the cemetery curate offered to bury Guibord without religious rites in the section used for criminals.

KGV occupies the remaining floors, designated by the letter E. The third floor of the building houses the Senior Student Centre ( SSC ) which is a common lounge / study area reserved exclusively for senior students.

Simple variables could be used, although their names were limited to one letter and some letters were reserved for special purposes, of which some are the precursors of the environment variables found in all Unix systems from Version 7 onward.

Names containing double underscore or beginning with an underscore and a capital letter are reserved for implementation ( compiler, standard library ) and should not be used ( e. g. or ).

The letter " R " is reserved for the first letter of supplemental routes which connect with state parks or other recreational facilities.

Normally, the letter ' F ' is reserved for foul outs.