Therefore strings beginning with C ( or any other capital letter ) would be sorted before strings with lower-case a, b, etc.

This may be followed by the first letter or letters of the title in lower-case, and / or sometimes the letters a, b, c indicating other printings of the same title.

For instance, in the 55 Cancri system the first planet – 55 Cancri b – was discovered in 1996 ; two additional farther planets were simultaneously discovered in 2002 with the nearest to the star being named 55 Cancri c and the other 55 Cancri d ; a fourth planet was claimed ( its existence was later disputed ) in 2004 and named 55 Cancri e despite lying closer to the star than 55 Cancri b ; and the most recently discovered planet, in 2007, was named 55 Cancri f despite lying between 55 Cancri c and 55 Cancri d. As of April 2012 the highest letter in use is " j ", for the unconfirmed planet HD 10180 j ( HD 10180 h is the confirmed planet with the highest letter ).

Since most exoplanets are in single star systems, the implicit " A " designation was simply dropped, leaving the exoplanet name with the lower-case letter only: 51 Peg b.

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 )

In the Hubble classification scheme, spiral galaxies are listed as type S, followed by a letter ( a, b, or c ) that indicates the degree of tightness of the spiral arms and the size of the central bulge.

In the Hubble classification scheme, these are designated by an SB, followed by a lower-case letter ( a, b or c ) that indicates the form of the spiral arms ( in the same manner as the categorization of normal spiral galaxies ).

The International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC ) therefore recommends the symbol bit instead of b. The prefix kilo is often used in fields of computer science and information technology with a meaning of multiplication by 1024 instead of 1000, contrary to international standards, in conjunction with the base unit byte and bit, in which case it is often written with a capital letter K, e. g., Kbit and KB.

In cases where many meteorites were found in one place, the name may be followed by a number or letter ( e. g., Allan Hills 84001 or Dimmitt ( b )).

For example, different forms of the letter " b " are all considered to represent a single grapheme in the orthography of, say, English.

The modern accidental signs derive from the round and square small letter b used in Gregorian chant manuscripts to signify the two pitches of B, the only note that could be altered.

Then, the chance that the first letter typed is ' b ' is 1 / 50, and the chance that the second letter typed is a is also 1 / 50, and so on.

A mistake in some electronic versions of the text on the internet is the substitution, or mirroring, of the second letter b in the word bribe, turning it into bride in fit 5, stanza 22:

* Alphabetical Africa is a book by Walter Abish in which the first chapter only uses words that begin with the letter " a ", while the second chapter incorporates the letter " b ", and then " c ", etc.

and the Talmud, the letter " b ", which in Hebrew means " in ," should be taken as a part of the word following, and the phrase would then be " unto the oak of Bitzanaim ," a place which has

The numeral 6 — Can be confused with a letter capital " G ", or the lower case letter " b ", or the " 9 " if inverted.

Letter grades were added for climbs at 5. 10 and above, by adding a letter " a " ( easiest ), " b ", " c " or " d " ( hardest ).

Each numerical grade can be subdivided by adding a letter ( a, b or c ).

However, both the Greek letter " β " ( v ) and the Cyrillic " в " ( v ) have been historically Romanized as " b " ( other examples include " Βυζάντιον ", Vizantion → Byzantium ; the Greek name " Βασίλειος ", Vassilios and the Russian " Василий ", Vassily → Basil, the Byzantine title " σεβαστοκράτωρ "/" севастократор " sevastokrator → sebastokrator, etc .).

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 Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.

In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.

Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

In a perfect anagram, every letter must be used, with exactly the same number of occurrences as in the anagrammed word or phrase ; any result that falls short is called an imperfect anagram.

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

Abbreviations were of two kinds: the use of a single letter for a single word,

In a secret detailed letter to the Soviet leadership of July 21, 1967, Sakharov explains the need to " take the Americans at their word " and accept their proposal " for a bilateral rejection by the USA and the Soviet Union of the development of antiballistic missile defense ", because otherwise an arms race in this new technology would increase the likelihood of nuclear war.

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information ( for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture ) into another form or representation ( one sign into another sign ), not necessarily of the same type.

The word consonant comes from Latin oblique stem cōnsonant -, from cōnsonāns ( littera ) " sounding-together ( letter )", a calque of Greek σύμφωνον sýmphōnon ( plural sýmphōna ).

The word consonant is also used to refer to a letter of an alphabet that denotes a consonant sound.

" Ray invariably mocks " Cambridge, Mah " the US Postal Service's two letter abbreviation for " Massachusetts " by pronouncing it as a word.

Sometimes used as a symbol for Christian marriage: Two gold wedding rings interlinked with the Greek letters Chi ( letter ) | chi ( X ) and Rho ( letter ) | rho ( P )— the first two letters in the Greek word for " Christ " ( see Labarum )

Reasons for this transition was productive uses for such monitors, i. e. besides widescreen computer game play and movie viewing, are the word processor display of two standard letter pages side by side, as well as CAD displays of large-size drawings and CAD application menus at the same time.

During World War II, a dog tag could indicate only one of three religions through the inclusion of one letter: " P " for Protestant, " C " for Catholic, or " H " for Jewish ( from the word, " Hebrew "), or ( according to at least one source ) " NO " to indicate no religious preference.

In dyslexia, dysgraphia is often multifactorial, due to impaired letter writing automaticity, finger motor sequencing challenges, organizational and elaborative difficulties, and impaired visual word form which makes it more difficult to retrieve the visual picture of words required for spelling.

The word docetai ( illusionists ) referring to early groups who denied Jesus's humanity, first occurred in a letter by Bishop Serapion of Antioch ( 197-203 ), who discovered the doctrine in the Gospel of Peter, during a pastoral visit to a Christian community using it in Rhosus, and later condemned it as a forgery.

Dionysius Thrax in his Art of Grammar also refers to it as " for sending ( a letter )", from the verb epistéllō " send to ", a word from the same root as epistle.

** At the last letter of a word, the vowel point reflects the inflection case or conjugation mood.

Armed with a " highly confident letter " from Drexel ( in which Drexel promised to get the necessary debt in time to fulfill the buyer's obligations ), these firms and greenmailers were able to profit by merely threatening LBOs of large, blue-chip companies in which they had built up equity positions.

It was during this time that Richardson received a letter from Samuel Johnson asking for money to pay for a debt that Johnson was unable to afford.

Following Senator Proxmire ’ s letter, in 1989 the Federal Reserve Board approved Section 20 affiliates underwriting corporate debt securities and increased from 5 % to 10 % the percentage of its revenue a Section 20 affiliate could earn from “ bank-ineligible ” activities.

How deep into debt Copley had fallen in his latest years was hinted at in Mrs. Copley's letter of February 1, 1816, to Gardiner Greene in which she gave details of his assets and borrowings and predicted: " When the whole property is disposed of and applied toward the discharge of the debts a large deficiency must, it is feared, remain.

Getty commonly tries to intimidate website owners by sending collection agents, even though a demand letter cannot create a debt.

In a letter to Jarrell from 1957, Lowell wrote, " I suppose we shouldn't swap too many compliments, but I am heavily in your debt.

Whilst composing his letter, Bond encounters a beautiful, suicidal young woman named Contessa Teresa " Tracy " di Vicenzo first on the road and subsequently at the gambling table, where he saves her from a coup de deshonneur by paying the gambling debt she is unable to cover.

In a letter addressed to the managing director of IMF Christine Lagarde, she explained in detail the " four pillars to get out France of the debt and straighten out our public accounts ".

* File a lawsuit in a proper venue If a debt collector chooses to file a lawsuit, it may only be in a place where the consumer lives or signed the contract Note, however, that this does not prevent the debt collector from being sued in other venues for violating the Act, such as when the consumer moves outside the venue and a letter demanding payment is forwarded to the new address, even if the debt collector is unaware of such a change in residence.

In March 1989, several leading activists of the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) protested in a letter that criticized the economic policies of Nicolae Ceauşescu, but shortly thereafter Ceauşescu achieved a significant political victory: Romania paid off its external debt of about US $ 11 billion several months before the time that even the Romanian dictator expected.

Invalided home with a letter of recommendation from Lord Raglan, written five days before his own death, he left the Royal Navy to join the British Army, becoming a cornet ( without purchase ) in the 13th Light Dragoons and reporting to their depot with his arm still in a sling ; He had only £ 250 a year in private income, rather than the £ 400 needed, and was soon in debt.

As the three get ready to leave, Hardenberg hands Jule a letter, clearing all her debt and telling them that they need not worry about the police.

In a January 21, 2010 letter to state corrections officials, Los Angeles Police Union President Paul Weber urged the board to deny parole, calling Powell a " vicious murderer who has not yet paid his debt to society.

Leon Black, Drexel's lead investment banker on the deal, proposed that Drexel write a letter advising the banks that it was " highly confident " that it would be able to raise the required debt in time to fulfill Icahn's obligations.

*" Maida letter details DC site debt " Detroit Free Press ( February 4, 2006 )

Thus sending a letter or procuring a book was a sign of personal devotion that engendered a social debt to be fulfilled.