This can be done by stories in your house organs, posters, special publications, letters to workers' homes as well as by word of mouth through your chain of command.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.

In a perfectly phonemic orthography there would be a consistent one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes, so that a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.

Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

As Daniels used the word, an abugida contrasts with a syllabary, where letters with shared consonants or vowels show no particular resemblance to each another, and with an alphabet proper, where independent letters are used to denote both consonants and vowels.

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

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.

Any word or phrase that exactly reproduces the letters in another order is an anagram.

* On the British game show Countdown, contestants are given 30 seconds to make the longest word from nine random letters.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.

Occasional letters are sent by individuals to one another and many are written by companies to one another, but these are mostly typewritten.

They enlisted the help of the New Jersey congressman, who has been able to trace the letters to the national archives, where they are available on microfilm.

Signs are meant to convey a message, and in most cases, this requires words and letters.

The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.

Poster Products Inc., Chicago, Ill.: a changeable copy and display sign which consists of an extruded impact styrene background in choice of colors, onto which are mounted snap-in letters, figures, or words screened on acetate or other types of sheet stock.

For large letters, e.g. thermoformed of acrylic or butyrate, there are other techniques.

Large injection-molded letters are also available for sign installations.

Made in lengths from 3 to 10 ft., the bars are shaped in cross section to provide a secure fit for the tapered slots molded in back of the letters.

numbers sometimes followed by letters are used so that insertions can be made.

The letters of the common soldiers are rich in humor.

and these, full of homely advice, are among the most human and revealing of Civil War letters.

Similar comments about officers are to be found in the letters of Northern soldiers.

Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters there are to be written ( and during May, which is National Salvation Army Week, there are plenty ), schedules to be made or problems to be solved, Mrs. Marr's office is always open and the welcome mat is out.

That 60-day period is over and letters are still coming in from shareholders of these four funds, complaining about mistakes in their accounts.

While most alphabets have letters composed of lines ( linear writing ), there are also exceptions such as the alphabets used in Braille, fingerspelling, and Morse code.

Alphabets are usually associated with a standard ordering of their letters.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

By choosing widely separated keys, one could employ one dimple as a ' shift ' key to allow both letters and numbers to be produced.

Postal codes in the Netherlands are formed of four digits then two letters ( in capitals ), separated by a space —< tt > 1234 AB </ tt >, for example.

When such a fractionated message is transposed, the components of individual letters become widely separated in the message, thus achieving Claude E. Shannon's diffusion.

In 1928 Alexandra legally separated from Philippe, but they continued to exchange letters and he kept supporting her till his death in 1941.

Every enzyme code consists of the letters " EC " followed by four numbers separated by periods.

Although Lane's diaries indicate she was separated from her husband in 1915, Wilder's letters do not indicate this.

The letters were answered by the Fraticelli, who by this time had separated themselves entirely from the Roman Church.

Another easy way to tell hub doubling from die deterioration doubling is the presence of notched serifs ; the small flairs on the ends of letters will appear distinctly separated with the former, whereas they appear just blurry and washed out with the latter.

In hand writing, a ligature is made by joining two or more characters in a way they wouldn't usually be, either by merging their parts, writing one above another or one inside another ; while in printing, a ligature is a group of characters that is typeset as a unit, and the characters don't have to be joined — for example, in some cases fi ligature prints letters f and i more separated than when they are typeset as separate letters.

In some language orthographies, like that of Croatian ( lj, nj, dž ), traditional Spanish ( ch, ll, rr ) or Czech ( ch ), digraphs are considered individual letters, meaning that they have their own place in the alphabet, in the standard orthography, and cannot be separated into their constituent graphemes ; e. g.: when sorting, abbreviating or hyphenating.

While most of these can be thought of as consonant +, the letters in кхъ cannot be so separated: the х has the negative meaning that кхъ is not ejective, as къ is.

In the English colonies of the early 17th century, most of the letters are clearly separated in the handwriting of William Bradford, though a few were joined as in a cursive hand.

The letters in the lowest line in the Snellen chart are composed of lines that are separated by a visual angle of one arc minute.

Each succeeding higher line on the Snellen chart contains letters whose lines are separated by correspondingly larger visual angles.

A person who can correctly identify letters on the lowest line is able to discern individual lines that are separated by a visual angle of one arc minute.

In this fragment the letters gamma and kappa are separated by an apostrophe, a feature very rare in dated second century papyri ; which accordingly implies a date for the Egerton Gospel closer to 200 CE-and indicates the perils of ascribing a date for a papyrus text of which only a small part of two pages survives.

While separated, they contact each other with many letters so that their friendship will never end.

# Two adjacent letters ( in the original name ) with the same number are coded as a single number ; also two letters with the same number separated by ' h ' or ' w ' are coded as a single number, whereas such letters separated by a vowel are coded twice.