In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as " Ϝ " or its modern lowercase variant " ϝ ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by " ϛ " ( or, in modern practice in Greece, replaced with " στ ").

** tittle, the dot used by default in the modern lowercase form of the Latin letters " i " and " j "

Some of them resembled a modern lowercase Latin " e ", some a " 6 " with a connecting stroke to the next letter starting from the middle, and some a combination of two small " c "- like curves.

The modern Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, each with a capital ( majuscule ) and lowercase ( minuscule ) form.

The lowercase q was written above the lowercase o, and this mark was transformed into the modern symbol.

Phi ( uppercase Φ, lowercase φ, or math symbol ), pronounced or sometimes in English, and in modern Greek, is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.

As with the numeral usage of stigma ( digamma ) and Sampi, modern typographical practice normally does not observe a contrast between uppercase and lowercase forms for numeric koppa.

Nu ( uppercase Ν lowercase ν, also transcribed Ny ; modern Ni ), is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.

Tack-shaped archaic consonantal Heta, together with a lowercase variant designed for modern typography. The rough breathing comes from the left-hand half of the letter H. In some Greek dialects, the letter was used for ( Heta ), and this usage survives in the Latin letter H. In other dialects, it was used for the vowel ( Eta ), and this usage survives in the modern system of writing Ancient Greek, and in Modern Greek.

In this way it forms the basis of our modern lowercase typefaces.

After installing one of them and applying their formatting to the document – because of the lack of capital letters – rovás characters could be entered in the following way: those letters which are unique letters in today's Hungarian orthography are virtually lowercase ones, and can be written by simply pressing the specific key ; and since the modern digraphs equal to separate rovás letters, they were encoded as ' uppercase ' letters, i. e. in the space originally restricted for capitals.

Sears Canada closed some Eaton's stores, converted others to Sears stores, sold others to the Hudson's Bay Company, and kept a number of downtown stores with the intention of relaunching eatons in 2000 as a more high-end, modern brand, with a lowercase " e " in a circle as its logo and a splashy ad campaign built around the colour aubergine.

The uppercase form of sigma was re-borrowed into the Latin alphabet to serve as the uppercase of modern esh ( lowercase: ).

For SVT1, the logo consisted of the lowercase letters S, V and T in white and the numeral " 1 " in orange in a violet rectangle, which has the shape of a modern television screen.

To deemphasize the term's eponymous character, modern writers often lowercase it ( babbitt metal — as with " diesel engine ").

In the modern Church Slavonic alphabet, the 6th letter is typically shown as Єєе ( one uppercase accompanied with two variants of lowercase ).

But even in that case ( and as with the Latin letters i and j ), this dot has not always been rendered in historic texts where the lowercase form was present without any other diacritic, and some modern texts and font styles may still discard this " soft " dot on the lowercase letter, because it is necessary for the readability of the text only for cursive styles.

Thus, before the modern assembly line took shape, there were prototypical forms in various industries, as outlined below.

In former times the alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an alphorn, but modern makers piece the wood together at the base.

The name is usually derived from a toponym, Angeln, from a Germanic word * anguz meaning " narrow " ( modern High German " eng ") or " angular " ( of the shape of the Jutland peninsula ).

In modern cattle, numerous breeds share characteristics of the aurochs, such as a dark colour of the bulls with a light eel stripe and light colour in cows, or a typical aurochs-like horn shape.

The vastly increasing demands of imperial expansion, and the inadequacies and inefficiencies of the underfunded, post-Napoleonic Wars British Army, and of the Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteer Force, led to the Cardwell and Childers Reforms of the late 19th century, which gave the British Army its modern shape, and redefined its regimental system.

By the same time, the Croatian Adriatic coast had taken shape as an internationally popular tourist destination, all coastal republics ( but mostly SR Croatia ) profited greatly from this, as tourist numbers reached levels still unsurpassed in modern Croatia.

It was not until the work of the Italian statesman Bettino Ricasoli that the modern " Chianti recipe " as a Sangiovese-based wine would take shape.

By this time, equids were more truly horse-like, having developed the typical body shape of the modern animals.

Although the brain was small ( 410 cm³ ), its shape was rounded, unlike that of chimpanzees and gorillas, and more like a modern human brain.

Subsequent events that can be traced to the Revolution include the Napoleonic Wars, two separate restorations of monarchy ( Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy ), and two additional revolutions ( 1830 and 1848 ) as modern France took shape.

For this reason, the furlong was once also called an acre's length, though of course in modern usage an area of one acre can be any shape.

The shot was initially made from lead already used as ammunition for the slings, and begun with the ballistic shape of a modern bullet, but was rapidly replaced by the cast iron ball.

With the advent of modern plastics, the amount of skill required to get the basic shape accurately shown for any given subject was lessened, making it easier for people of all ages to begin assembling replicas in varying scales.

" The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw.

( The gamma has the shape of modern lambda.

The rounded sections gave maximum displacement for the lowest wetted surface area, similar to a modern narrow rowing skiff, so were a very fast shape, but not great load carriers.

* Postmodernism is the new black: How the shape of modern retailing was both predicted and influenced by some unlikely seers (< CITE > The Economist </ CITE > 19 December 2006 )

However, the method of cooking these sheets of dough does not correspond to our modern definition of either a fresh or dry pasta product, which only had similar basic ingredients and perhaps the shape.

A glaive is a polearm consisting of a single-edged tapering blade similar in shape to a modern kitchen knife on the end of a pole.

Television signals are transmitted in digital form, and their pixels have a rectangular shape, as opposed to square pixels that are used in modern computer monitors and modern implementations of HDTV.

It is now one of the most modern cultural facilities in the city, with its front elevation in the shape of a gigantic chest of drawers.

The received views of the Vikings as violent brutes or intrepid adventurers owe much to the modern Viking myth which had taken shape by the early 20th century.

A modern attached wing collar ( of the half-collar shape, with longer wings than a typical attached wing collar ) and pre-tied bow tie

Although there have been attempts to show that the Ainu language and the Japanese language are related, modern scholars have rejected that the relationship goes beyond contact, such as the mutual borrowing of words between Japanese and Ainu.

In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.

The proverb " pride goes before a fall " ( from the biblical Book of Proverbs, 16: 18 ) is thought to summate the modern use of hubris.

A modern version of theses medieval chains is seen in the Faroese chain dance, the earliest account of which goes back only to the 17th century.

It was comparable in some ways to modern post-Keynesian economics, but with a more " anything goes " approach.

* John Stuart Mill: A utilitarian, and the person who named the system ; he goes further than Bentham by laying the foundation for liberal democratic thought in general and modern, as opposed to classical, liberalism in particular.

The second stream goes beyond the sentimental sound and encompasses a range of modifications from a complete engine swap to a thorough upgrade on the traction of Trabant, leaving only the body to hide a modern powerful car underneath ( e. g. the Sascha Fiss ' Volkswagen Lupo GTI ).

It goes into more detail than a modern constitution commonly does and reveals a great deal about Visigothic social structure.

He goes on a rampage forcing Bonifacius, Roman governor, to retreat to the fortified coastal town of Hippo Regius ( modern Annaba ).

A second group, far smaller than the first, comprises modern ornaments: moresques, interlaced bands, strapwork, and elements such as cartouches ...", categories he goes on to discuss individually.

Joseph Sobek is credited with inventing the modern sport of racquetball in 1950 ( the outdoor, one-wall game goes back to at least 1910 in N. Y. C.

The modern italic type ampersand is a kind of et-ligature that goes back to the cursive scripts developed during the Renaissance.

Ties between Afghanistan and Bangladesh goes back before the emergence of their modern political borders sharing historical, cultural and trade relations.

Though U. S. Route 101 remains a major coastal north – south link along the Pacific coast north of San Francisco, it has been replaced in overall importance for transport through the West Coast states by Interstate 5, which is more modern in its physical design, goes through more major cities, and has more direct routing due to significantly easier geography over much of the route.

The first battle of the war, at Haliesis in the Gulf of Argolis, results in a Corinthian victory, but the next battle, at Cecryphalea ( modern Angistrion ), goes Athens ' way.

Although the modern county of South Yorkshire was not created until 1974, the history of its constituent settlements and parts goes back centuries.

J. Gordon Melton of the Institute for the Study of American Religion said that disconnection goes much further than the policies of most modern religions.

So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their Neolithic ancestors would have had.

Other material goes to make farm fencing and to be chipped for modern wood-fired heating systems.

He goes further and explains " admittedly, no attempt has yet been made to bring the resources of modern historical research to bear on Robert II and Robert III ... but it is beyond the bounds of probability that even if this is done either of them will emerge as a man who did much positively to shape Scottish history.

The theory goes under several names, with some variation in its details, but all modern versions distinguish between short-run and long-run effects on unemployment.

A modern telephone stores the digits as they are entered, and only goes off-hook and actually sends the digits when the subscriber presses a " Call " or " Talk " button.

In recent years, the McDonaldland premise has largely been phased out of advertising campaigns, with modern commercials usually just depicting Ronald alone in real-world situations with real children, whether he visits a local restaurant or goes to visit sick children at Ronald McDonald House.

* Fukuzawa Yukichi, who was regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan and found it impossible to combine modern learning with belief in gods, openly declaring, " It goes without saying that the maintenance of peace and security in society requires a religion.