The Phoenician script was probably the first phonemic script and it contained only about two dozen distinct letters, making it a script simple enough for common traders to learn.

For most of these scripts, regardless of whether letters or diacritics are used, the most common tone is not marked, just as the most common vowel is not marked in Indic abugidas ; in Zhuyin not only is one of the tones unmarked, but there is a diacritic to indicate lack of tone, like the virama of Indic.

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.

Only CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK are currently in common use, although four radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador retained call letters beginning with VO when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949.

The most common letters do not necessarily require chording as is the case with the GKOS keyboard optimised layouts ( Android app ) where the twelve most frequent characters only require single keys.

A common misconception about dyslexia is that dyslexic readers write words backwards or move letters around when reading – this only occurs in a very small population of dyslexic readers.

The main arguments in favor of the authenticity of Galatians include its style and themes, which are common to the core letters of the Pauline corpus.

While critics point to the common practice of pseudonymous writing in the ancient world, they usually fail to point out that this practice, though common in the culture, was not common in personal letters, and was categorically rejected by the early church ( cf.

Some ancient sources, such as Hippolytus, and some modern scholars consider that the epistle " from Laodicea " was never a lost epistle, but simply Paul recycling one of his other letters ( the most common candidate is the contemporary Letter to the Ephesians ), just as he asks for the copying and forwarding of the Letter to Colossians to Laodicea.

* Greeks ( finance ), the Greeks epresenting the sensitivities of derivatives ( the most common of these sensitivities are often denoted by Greek letters )

On the other hand, the same lists can be used by the puzzle setter to stump their opponent by choosing a word which deliberately avoids common letters ( e. g. rhythm or zephyr ) or one that contains rare letters ( e. g. jazz ).

It is common to represent propositional constants by,, and, propositional variables by,, and, and schematic letters are often Greek letters, most often,, and.

The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin ( as described in this article ), or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin one, such as the English alphabet.

The number of points of each lettered tile is based on the letter's frequency in standard English writing ; commonly used letters such as E or O are worth one point, while less common letters score higher, with Q and Z each worth 10 points.

The term shipping in this context originated from the shipping trade of wind power ships, and has come to refer to the delivery of cargo and parcels of any size above the common mail of letters and postcards.

The most popular is UTF-8, where the ASCII characters, such as English letters, digits, and some other common characters are preserved unchanged against ASCII.

Especially in literature in German it was common to represent vectors with small fraktur letters as.

In the 19th century and early 1900s it was common for letters to receive multiple postmarks indicating the time, date, and location of each post office delivering or transporting the letter, and this is still occasionally true, though to a lesser extent ( see " backstamp ").

Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.

Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.

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

After his conquest of Naples in 1442, Alfonso ruled by his mercenary soldiers and mercenary men of letters.

This was followed by Letters from Iwo Jima, which dealt with the tactics of the Japanese soldiers on the island and the letters they wrote home to family members.

After being demobbed ( he had served as a sergeant in the Army Education Corps and spent much of his national service in Germany writing letters home for soldiers ), he went to work as an insurance clerk in the claims and accidents department of the Commercial Union Insurance Company for six years.

The next morning, a British patrol of two dozen mounted soldiers found Lee writing letters in his dressing gown, and captured him.

American soldiers referred to the Viet Cong as Victor Charlie or V-C. " Victor " and " Charlie " are both letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

During WWII, GIs from Massachusetts who were stationed overseas shared the cookies they received in care packages from back home with soldiers from other parts of the U. S. Soon, hundreds of GIs were writing home asking their families to send them some Toll House Cookies, and Wakefield was soon inundated with letters from around the world asking for her recipe.

Zeno caused Ardabur's fall, producing treacherous letters that linked him to the Sassanid King ; Ardabur later bribed some of Zeno's soldiers into trying to kill him.

On this trip he was successful in obtaining letters from Pope Urban VIII forbidding the enslavement of the missionaries under the severest church penalties, and from King Philip IV of Spain, permitting guaraníes to carry firearms for defense and to be trained in their use by veteran soldiers who had become Jesuits.

It has been noted that local girls would gather letters thrown by the soldiers from the train-and forward them to the intended recipients at the Post Office.

* Primary Sources from World War One and Two Database of mailed letters to and from soldiers during major world conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars to World War Two.

There is also considerable evidence from Confederate memoirs and letters that the high Union casualties were partially the result of Confederate troops murdering wounded and captured African-American Union soldiers.

In 1952 letters and family pictures were dropped from aircraft urging them to surrender, but the three soldiers concluded that this was a trick.

In the descriptions of ancient travelers, soldiers, or local officials ( most of them are men of letters ) of the phenomenon of miasma, fog, haze, dust, gas, or poison geological gassing were always mentioned.

As reports of the grave registration work became public, the commission began to receive letters of enquiry and requests for photographs of graves from relatives of deceased soldiers.

Radio Belgrade received many letters from Axis soldiers all over Europe asking them to play " Lili Marleen " again.

Dearborn emphatically denied giving orders for any buildings to be destroyed and deplored the worst of the atrocities in his letters, but he was nonetheless unable or unwilling to rein in his soldiers.

Catholic priests instructed the soldiers in mathematics, writing, theology, Latin, Greek, and history, and wrote letters and official document for them.

The Elephantine papyri are caches of legal documents and letters written in Aramaic, which document a community of Jewish soldiers, with perhaps an admixture of Samaritans, stationed here during the Persian occupation of Egypt.

During her tenure at the White House, she often visited hospitals around Washington to give flowers and fruit to wounded soldiers, and transcribed letters for them to send their loved ones.

Mary had lobbied hard for such a pension, writing numerous letters to Congress and urging patrons such as Simon Cameron to petition on her behalf, insisting that she deserved a pension just as much as the widows of soldiers.

But when the chief censor ( Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett ) was found to have written far more obscene letters to General Chamberlaine, he was discredited: soldiers really did speak that way.