" Philip Larkin in a letter to Kingsley Amis in 1948, wrote that " no one can ' stick words into us like pins '... like he can ", but followed that by stating that he " doesn't use his words to any advantage ".

The orthography uses the letter ł to represent this phoneme ( not that it doesn't specifically represent the sound, it represents the phoneme which in some dialects is and in some ).

The board is smaller, and so the game is quicker, and it doesn't have special squares such as " triple word scores " and " double letter scores " that require additional scoring calculations.

When Smith viewed the edition, she asked her mother, " If people are so afraid of him, why doesn't someone write a letter asking whether he wants to have a war or not ?".

Even as Come Back, Little Sheba was in a pre-Broadway run in early 1950, Inge was filled with some doubt as to its success, as he expressed in a letter to his sponsor in Alcoholics Anonymous, " If Sheba makes it in Hartford I guess it will go on to Broadway and if it doesn't I suppose I'll be back in St. Louis.

) Christian theologian Joseph Barber Lightfoot argued for the authenticity of the letter since it doesn't state it was written in Egypt ( 132 ) and that an alternative date for the adoption of Aelius was on or before 134.

Because the cipher doesn't change any of the characters, the ciphertext will have exactly the same letter frequencies as the underlying plaintext.

Convinced her teacher doesn't like her, Ramona refuses to return until a very special letter from her teacher brings her back.

The pronunciation also leans towards it being two words since the letter c doesn't normally sound like a k when followed by an e, an i or a y.

Unlike Esperanto, the most popular auxiliary language, Interlingua doesn't have a ' one letter one sound ' orthography.

At first, he doesn't remember anything and experiences déjà vu, but after he reads Virgil's modified letter, he recalls everything, and decides to set it right in order to defeat the Skullmaster.

He heads home to find a " Dear John letter "; Cindy has confused his reticence, believes she pushed too hard, and decides that since he doesn't want to get married, that it's best she leave.

Corey, speaking of the suicide note, states: " hat letter doesn't make sense.

* Head-2-Head ( formerly debutted as " The Mail "): A Letters To The Editor section that features responses to the letters, as well ( although this doesn't mean that every letter published will have a response tagged after it ).

Set in the fictional town of Junctionville, NY around the turn of the 19th to 20th century, Santa Claus is offended by an anonymous letter printed in the town's newspaper ( and signed " all of us ") claiming that he doesn't exist.

If two glyphs are shown for a consonant, then the left-most glyph is the Final form of the letter ( or right-most glyph if your browser doesn't support right-to-left text layout ).

As he explained in a letter to Tchaikovsky in October 1882, " this magnificent subject is unsuitable, it doesn't harmonise with my inner frame of mind ".

* Wedding Bull Blues: When Cowlamity Kate doesn't receive a letter from her father who has been exploring the Mesa for 7 years, Mayor Bulloney claims he will be taking all her property since her father had no will.

She doesn't lose hope, managing to sneak a letter to Dave under the guise of writing to her father.

" The letter doesn't condemn Byrne, but clarifies why Hicks no longer appears in The Secret.

The obstinate womanizing boxer inconsistently shows signs of regret and change, for example when he writes a letter of apology to his mother but doesn't send it.

Lockyer later apologized for the statement in a letter to the Los Angeles Times, saying, " My anger over the activities of energy barons doesn't come close to my lifelong outrage at the crime of rape.

Vowels not preceded by a consonant may be represented with a zero consonant letter, modified to indicate the vowel, or separate letters for each vowel, that are distinct from the corresponding dependent vowel signs.

Cuthbert's letter on Bede's death, the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae, moreover, commonly is understood to indicate that Bede also composed a five line vernacular poem known to modern scholars as Bede ’ s Death Song

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

In several languages, including English, pronouns and possessives may be capitalized to indicate respect, e. g., when referring to the reader of a formal letter or to God.

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.

The letter to indicate the position is appended to the end of the number.

In abugida scripts, like those used to write Hindi and Thai, diacritics indicate vowels, and may occur above, below, before, after, or around the consonant letter they modify.

:* Romanian uses a breve on the letter a ( ă ) to indicate the sound schwa, as well as a circumflex over the letters a ( â ) and i ( î ) for the sound.

The acute and the grave accent indicate stress and vowel height, the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization, the diaeresis mark indicates either a hiatus, or that the letter u is pronounced when the graphemes gü, qü are followed by e or i, the interpunct (·) distinguishes the different values of ll / l · l.

The acute and the grave accent indicate stress and vowel height, the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization, the diaeresis mark indicates either a hiatus, or that the letter u is pronounced when the graphemes gü, qü are followed by e or i, the interpunct (·) distinguishes the different values of nh / n · h and sh / s · h.

In British English it is not necessary to indicate an abbreviation with a full stop ( period ) after the abbreviation, when the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as the unabbreviated word, while the opposite holds true in North American English.

In addition, the exclusion of any mention of the letter of Acts 15 is seen to indicate that such a letter did not yet exist, since Paul would have been likely to use it against the legalism confronted in Galatians.

Still, Luther insisted that the letter upheld the social status quo: though not explicit, the text could be interpreted to indicate that Paul did nothing to change Onesimus's legal position as a slave and that Paul was complying with Roman law in returning him to Philemon.

As a part of military nomenclature, a letter is often assigned to various types of aircraft to indicate their use, along with a number to indicate the specific aircraft.

The Rankine temperature scale was created to use degree intervals the same size as those of the Fahrenheit scale, such that a temperature difference of one degree Rankine ( 1 R ) is equal to a difference of 1 ° F, except that absolute zero is 0 R – the same way that the Kelvin temperature scale matches the Celsius scale, except that absolute zero is 0 K. The Fahrenheit scale uses ( in the same manner as the later Celsius scale ) the symbol ° to denote a point on the temperature scale and the letter F to indicate the use of the Fahrenheit scale ( e. g. " Gallium melts at 85. 5763 ° F "), as well as to denote a difference between temperatures or an uncertainty in temperature ( e. g. " The output of the heat exchanger experiences an increase of 72 ° F " and " Our standard uncertainty is ± 5 ° F ").

Initially, Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax ( a combination of " free ", " freak ", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system ), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds ' directory linux.

A letter is often appended to the psi unit to indicate the measurement's zero reference ; psia for absolute, psig for gauge, psid for differential, although this practice is discouraged by the NIST.

Some chronicles indicate that he was also elevated to the College of Cardinals, but these testimonies probably resulted from a confusion because Bernardo is not attested as cardinal in any document and from the letter of Bernard of Clairvaux addressed to the cardinals shortly after his election clearly appears that he was not a cardinal.

He enclosed a copy of Göring's letter of 31 July to indicate his authority in the matter.

POJ, Legge romanization, Simplified Wade, and EFEO Chinese transcription use the letter h instead of an apostrophe to indicate aspiration ( this is similar to the superscript used in IPA ).

Documents with three digit numbers followed by a letter of the alphabet indicate that they are revisions of an older version of that document.