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.

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.

The first four poems ( chapters ) are acrostics, like some of the Psalms ( 25, 34, 37, 119 ), i. e., each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order.

In chemistry, the letter H as symbol of enthalpy sometimes is said to be a Greek eta, but since enthalpy comes from ἐνθάλπος, which begins in a smooth breathing and epsilon, it is more likely a Latin H for ' heat '.

The letter begins in standard form for an ancient Hellenistic letter structure, with author-or senders-first, then recipients with a greeting ( Phil.

Paul now begins into the main thrust of his letter.

As with all units whose names are derived from the proper name of a person, the first letter of its symbol is uppercase (" G "), but when the unit is spelled out, it should always be written in lowercase (" gauss "), unless it begins a sentence.

* March 20 – Richard Frethorne begins writing a letter to his parents from Jamestown, Virginia.

# If the word begins with ' KN ', ' GN ', ' PN ', ' AE ', ' WR ', drop the first letter.

Sharpless begins to read Pinkerton ’ s letter to Butterfly: " My friend, will you find that lovely flower of a girl …" Butterfly cannot control her happiness, as he continues, " since that happy times, three years have passed, and Butterfly perhaps does not remember me anymore.

That is, the first letter of its symbol is uppercase ( Bd ), but when the unit is spelled out, it should be written in lowercase ( baud ) except when it begins a sentence.

This scam usually begins with a letter or email purportedly sent to a selected recipient but actually sent to many, making an offer that would result in a large payoff for the victim.

), now used before words starting with a vowel sound, regardless of whether the word begins with a vowel letter.

The design of the alphabet fosters these natural connections, as each Quikscript letter either begins or ends on the base line or the upper parallel.

* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ( 2001 ) is described as a " progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ": the plot of the story deals with a small country which begins to outlaw the use of various letters, and as each letter is outlawed within the story, it is ( for the most part ) no longer used in the text of the novel.

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

Knight begins with the same letter as king, so it is abbreviated to either Kt ( used in older chess literature ) or N. " N " is used in this article.

The Lindisfarne Gospels begins with a carpet page in the form of a cross and a major initial page, introducing the letter of St. Jerome and Pope Damasus I ( Backhouse 2004 ).

: The first letter of a signal should be capitalized when it begins a citation sentence.

* paroemion: Resolute alliteration in which every word in a sentence or phrase begins with the same letter

For example, one of the very first entries in Skeat is for the letter A, which begins: "...( 1 ) adown ; ( 2 ) afoot ; ( 3 ) along ; ( 4 ) arise ; ( 5 ) achieve ; ( 6 ) avert ; ( 7 ) amend ; ( 8 ) alas ; ( 9 ) abyss ..." Further in the entry, Skeat writes: " These prefixes are discussed at greater length under the headings Of, On, Along, Arise ... Alas, Aware, Avast ..." It seems likely that these strings of words prompted Joyce to finish the Wake with a sentence fragment that included the words: "... a way a lone a last a loved a long ..."

The game begins by shaking a covered tray of sixteen cubic dice, each with a different letter printed on each of its sides.

As if this weren't enough, a creepy woman ( Ricki Lake ) shows up with a fan letter for Honor, and another kooky lady, Imogene ( Sandra Bernhard ), begins heavily, openly pursuing Monkey's attention.

Many years later in a letter to Davis ( ca 1965 ), Gödel would confess that " he was, at the time of these lectures, not at all convinced that his concept of recursion comprised all possible recursions ".

Many scholars see this as an indication that this letter was written before the Epistle to the Galatians, where Paul formed and identified his positions on these matters.

The author of the Easton's article concludes, " Many Christians today still find this letter to speak to modern-day problems within church communities.

Many scholars are convinced that Peter was not the author of this letter because the author had to have a formal education in rhetoric / philosophy and an advanced knowledge of the Greek language.

Many had seen Dilthey ’ s work as an outright attack on experimental psychology, Ebbinghaus included, and he responded to Dilthey with a personal letter and also a long scathing public article.

Many quatrains are mashed together: and something lost, I doubt, of Omar's simplicity, which is so much a virtue in him " ( letter to E. B. Cowell, 9 / 3 / 58 ).

Many make observations about celebrities ( especially those who have recently died ; one letter printed after the deaths of Gianni Versace and Princess Diana remarked on both their violent deaths and friendship with Elton John, stating " I tell you what.

Eusebius of Caesarea references Saracens in his Ecclesiastical history, in which he narrates an account wherein Dionysus, Bishop of Alexandria mentions Saracens in a letter while describing the Roman emperor Decius ' persecution: " Many were, in the Arabian mountain, enslaved by the barbarous sarkenoi.

Many articles include some witticism ; image captions are often humorous puns and the letters section usually concludes with an odd or light-hearted letter.

Many of the letters of marque used by buccaneers were legally invalid, and any form of legal paper in that illiterate age might be passed off as a letter of marque.

Many Birman breeders follow the French tradition of assigning all kittens born in a particular year given names that begin with the same letter of the alphabet.

Many important companies ( such as Sarajevo Stock Exchange, BH Telecom, Sparkasse BiH, Raiffeisen Bank BiH, Avaz Rotor Press, Uniqa Insurance, Energoinvest, Energopetrol, B & H Airlines, Petrol BH, Oki, Sarajevo stan ), embassies ( USA, Turkey, Malaysia, ...), educational institutions ( University in Sarajevo with more than 50, 000 students, a dozen of high schools ), shopping malls ( Sarajevo City Center, Alta Shopping Center, Imporatnne Center, ...) and main transportation center of whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the largest in whole of Balkan ( Sarajevo Transportation Center with Central Railway Station, Main Bus Station, Terminus of tram lines 1 and 4 and main letter / post center of whole Bosnia and Herzegowina ) are in CBD.

Many members became fans of the newly created Star Trek television show, and in 1968 Trimble and other members of LASFS were instrumental in organizing a nationwide letter writing campaign which saved the show from its announced cancellation by NBC at the end of its second season.

Many of the top schools in the United States are much more interested in teaching students legal theory and analysis than they are in the specific doctrines or " black letter law ".

Many scholars believe it goes back to a letter between St. Bernard of Clairvaux and Pope Innocent II, in which he referred to Pierre Abélard as Goliath, thus creating a connection between Goliath and the student adherents of Abélard.

Many mezuzah cases are also marked with the Hebrew letter ש ( Shin ), for Shaddai.

Many documents of the Katipunan bore a letter K which stood for Kalayaan ( Liberty ), while some had the rising mythological sun in the center.

The Mansion of Many Apartments is a metaphor that the poet John Keats expressed in a letter to John Hamilton Reynolds dated Sunday, 3 May 1818.

In a letter to his parents from prison, Rudolph has written, " Many good people continue to send me money and books.

Many months later, Lee wrote a strongly worded letter to Congress in protest but Congress closed the affair by informing him that it had no more need of his services.

Many years later, Hester returns alone, still wearing the scarlet letter, to live in her old cottage and resumes her charitable work.

Many North Carolinians were therefore offended when Thomas Jefferson's skeptical letter about the Mecklenburg Declaration was posthumously published in 1829.

Many places had been denoted with the Ndebele language pronunciation during the colonial period and this generally included the letter " L " which does not exist in Shona.

Many ligatures combine f with an adjacent letter.