Most mail these days consists of nothing that could truly be called a letter.

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

The first level of the code indicates the anatomical main group and consists of one letter.

For groups 1 to 4, the number consists of three digits and a letter of the alphabet.

" Robertson for his part denied that Helm had written any of the songs attributed to Robertson and his daughter later remarked in a letter to the Los Angeles Times that Levon Helm's solo work consists almost entirely of songs written by others.

Phonics derives from the Roman text The Doctrine of Littera, which states that a letter ( littera ) consists of a sound ( potestas ), a written symbol ( figura ) and a name ( nomen ).

A typical chain letter consists of a message that attempts to convince the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and then pass them on to as many recipients as possible.

The crew consists of ten members, whose descriptions all begin with the letter B: a Bellman ( the leader ), a Boots, a Bonnet-maker, a Barrister, a Broker, a Billiard-marker, a Banker, a Butcher, a Baker, and a Beaver.

It consists in substituting aleph ( the first letter ) for tav ( the last ), beth ( the second ) for shin ( one before last ), and so on, reversing the alphabet.

The book consists of 49 great letter tables, or squares made of 49 by 49 letters ( however, each table has a front and back side — making 98 49x49 tables in all ).

After an address to King Aldfrith, the letter consists of three treatises:

One sufficient condition for this to happen is that the ant's name, seen as a cyclic list, consists of consecutive pairs of identical letters ' LL ' or ' RR ' ( the term " cyclic list " indicates that the last letter may pair with the first one.

It consists of a stylised letter Q, represented by a blue circle broken by a red arrow.

However, a Canadian infantry battalion consists of three or four rifle companies identified by letter ( A Company, B Company, etc.

For example, the chorus in some swing music consists of 32 bars, which follows an AABA structure, where each letter consists of four 8-count sections and the B letter has a different melody.

He was supported in this by BMW ’ s Managing Director Franz Josef Popp who, in a letter to the chairman of MAN, described BFW as a “ dead factory, which possesses no plant worth mentioning, and consists very largely of dilapidated and unsuitable wooden sheds situated in a town that is extremely unfavorable for industrial activities and whose status continues to give little cause for enthusiasm ”.

: Class A consists of works that are not to be changed, even to the letter.

The British government did not approve of the actions of Sir Benjamin d ' Urban, and the British Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Glenelg, declared in a letter to the King that " the great evil of the Cape Colony consists in its magnitude " and demanded that the boundary be moved back to the Fish River.

For most moves the SAN consists of the letter abbreviation for the piece, an " x " if there is a capture, and the two-character algebraic name of the final square the piece moved to.

An ISIN consists of three parts: Generally, a two letter country code, a nine character alpha-numeric national security identifier, and a single check digit.

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.

His letter of October 26 named two of the men about whom Quiney had written to Shakespeare the day before.

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

Examples include Web accessibility a set of guidelines and two accessible web portals designed for people developing reading skills are peepo. com — try typing a letter with your keyboard for more — and peepo. co. uk with enhanced graphics, unique style controls and improved interactivity ( requires an SVG supported browser ).

In 1428, he received a letter from Yeshaq I of Ethiopia, borne by two dignitaries, which proposed an alliance against the Muslims and would be sealed by a dual marriage that would require the Infante Peter to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter.

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

In general, the three-letter code uses the ISO 3166-1 country code for the first two letters and the first letter of the name of the currency ( D for dollar, for instance ) as the third letter.

Once registered, the new PAUSE account has a directory in the CPAN under authors / id /( first letter )/( first two letters )/( author ID ).

The collection included prints of the photographs, two of the cameras used by the girls, watercolours of fairies painted by Elsie, and a nine-page letter from Elsie admitting to the hoax.

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

About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.

Leo's letter, now known as Leo's Tome, confessed that Christ had two natures, and was not of or from two natures.

The original full version of the letter, called Return of the Several Ministers dated June 15, 1692, and had already been reprinted in the fall 1692 in the final two pages of Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience.

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 )

) The result of arranging a set of strings in alphabetical order is that words with the same first letter are grouped together, and within such a group words with the same first two letters are grouped together and so on.

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.

) There are also two main conventions for the second letter of the digraph as well: voicing may be written with g and uvular affrication with x, or voicing with d and affrication with g ( a convention of Afrikaans ).

* Service number ( E. g., 11111 / 00 / 00B, where the first five digits are the ID, the second two are the year the soldier turned 18 years old, the last two digits are the year the soldier enlisted, and the letter is the enlistment group, either A or B )

Diacritical marks may appear above or below a letter, or in some other position such as within the letter or between two letters.

Books are catalogued in ascending numerical order ; when two or more books have the same classification number, the system sub-divides the class alphabetically, by the use of a call number ( usually the first letter, or letters, of the author's last name, or the title if there is no identifiable author.

Hooks or short lines attached to various parts of the basic letter modify the vowel.

In the 2001 film Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter sends Clarice Starling a letter which he writes while intentionally wearing a hand lotion containing ambergris, correctly assuming that this would ultimately aid her in discovering his location in Florence, Italy, due to it being legal only in few parts of the world.

This letter and successive parts were distributed from Bangor ( see External Links below ): in an informal manner, as a kind of diary, Grothendieck explained and developed his ideas on the relationship between algebraic homotopy theory and algebraic geometry and prospects for a noncommutative theory of stacks.

* When certain consonants occur together, special conjunct symbols are used which combine the essential parts of each letter.

Historian Paul Nagel has noted that this letter reached Washington, and that parts of it were used by Washington when drafting his farewell address.

Although the letter has not survived, Bede quoted from parts of it.

However, these reports are disputed by Leonard D. Jaffe, who was Surveyor program scientist and custodian of the Surveyor 3 parts brought back from the Moon, stated in a letter to the Planetary Society that an unnamed member of his staff reported that a " breach of sterile procedure " took place at just the right time to produce a false positive result.

In the middle of Lent 1087, the pope-elect assisted at a council of cardinals and bishops held at Capua as " Papal vicar of those parts " ( letter of Hugh of Lyons ) together with the Norman princes, Cencius the Consul and the Roman nobles.

Unfortunately, when the parts of the colony were reunited, the Aquidneck towns refused to accept the law and it became a dead letter.

gramma meant letter, and this title means " Art of letters "), possibly written by Dionysius Thrax, lists eight parts of speech, and lays out the broad details of Greek morphology including the case structures.

The use of keywords for assignment would lead to some extra parenthesis where expressions also had keyword messages, so to avoid that Self requires that the first part of a keyword message selector start with a lowercase letter, and subsequent parts start with an uppercase letter.

Charlotte Bronte referred to the novel in a letter to William Smith Williams on 13 September 1849, noting that " I have read David Copperfield ; it seems to me very good — admirable in some parts.

The large shape in the middle is the letter C, which stands for Canada, and the radiating parts of the C symbolize broadcasting.

The format of the postal code was expanded in 1998 to include more specific information on location within cities ; it now uses a letter that identifies the province, a four-digit number, and then three more letters ( and slightly different numbers are used for different parts of a city, which was formerly done only in the case of Buenos Aires ).

Graves also argues that the names of the Ogham letters in the alphabet used in parts of Gaelic Ireland and Britain contained a calendar that contained the key to an ancient liturgy involving the human sacrifice of a sacred king, and, further, that these letter names concealed lines of Ancient Greek hexameter describing the goddess.

The signatories to the letter included Whigs, Tories, and the Bishop of London, Henry Compton, who assured the Prince that, " Nineteen parts of twenty of the people ... are desirous of change.

:::" For they say that the course of human life resembles the letter Y, because every one of men, when he has reached the threshold of early youth, and has arrived at the place " where the way divides itself into two parts ," is in doubt, and hesitates, and does not know to which side he should rather turn himself.

Into modern times the Gospel of Peter had been known only from early quotations, especially from a reference by Eusebius to a letter publicly circulated by Serapion in 190 – 203, who had found upon examining it that " most of it belonged to the right teaching of the Saviour ," but that some parts might encourage its hearers to fall into the Docetist heresy.

" The conclusion of the letter reads: "... the third day of August we entered into a good harbour called St. John and there we found Eleuen Saile of Normans and one Brittaine and two Portugal barks all a fishing and so we are ready to depart towards Cap de Bras that is 25 leagues as shortly as we have fished and so along the Coast until we may meete with our fellowe and so with all diligence that lyes in me toward parts to that Ilands that we are command at our departing and thus Jesu save and keepe you Honourable Grace and all your Honourable Reuer.

Thom's biography and New York and Maryland newspapers were sources that published parts or all of this letter

The same holds true for speakers from areas that do not pronounce the letter " z " or soft " c " with the " th " sound ( or " theta ") who find themselves in parts of Spain that do use it, they might hypercorrect some words which contain the letter " s ", as if it were also a " th ".