When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used.

When an alphabet is adopted or developed for use in representing a given language, an orthography generally comes into being, providing rules for the spelling of words in that language.

* When strings contain spaces or other word dividers, the decision must be taken whether to ignore these dividers or to treat them as " letters " preceding all other letters of the alphabet.

When letters of an alphabet are used for this purpose of enumeration, there are certain language-specific conventions as to which letters are used.

When considering computational problems, a problem instance is a string over an alphabet.

When Douglass was about twelve years old, Hugh Auld's wife Sophia started teaching him the alphabet despite the fact that it was against the law to teach slaves to read.

When a spelling for in a native word is needed, a spelling from the native alphabet, such as V, U, or OU, can be used instead.

When the Phoenician alphabet was first uncovered in the 19th century, its origins were unknown.

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine, PhD ( March 24, 1946 ) (, )< ref > When he became a French citizen, " Alekhine " became the correct way to spell his name in the Latin alphabet.

When Kyrgyzstan became independent following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, there was a popular idea among some Kyrgyz people to make transition to the Latin alphabet ( taking in mind a version closer to the Turkish alphabet, not the original alphabet of 1928 – 1940 ), but the plan was never implemented.

When the ordinary citizen of Ancient Greece read inscriptions and the educated Greek read literature, what they saw was an all upper case Ionic alphabet: Α, Β, Γ, Δ, etc.

When the European missionaries arrived in the Agikuyu country in 1888, they learnt the Kikuyu language and started writing it using a modified Roman alphabet.

When objects are labeled using a single template alphabet, it makes it easier to identify their affiliation or source.

When the Kingdom of Hungary was established in AD 1000 and Christianity was adopted, the Latin alphabet was adopted and the script fell into disuse.

When the Oriental seven-day period ( week ) was introduced in the time of Cæsar Augustus, the first seven letters of the alphabet were employed in the same way to indicate the days of the new division of time.

When the input and output alphabet are both Σ, one can also associate to a Mealy Automata an Helix directed graph.

When in 885 the disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius were banished from Great Moravia, Boris I gave them refuge and provided assistance to develop the Slavic alphabet and literature.

When most of the Philippine languages were first written in the Latin script, they used the Spanish alphabet.

When Q, V and X are excluded, there are 32 letters in the Polish alphabet: 9 vowels and 23 consonants.

When dealing with languages that use the same Latin alphabet as English, names are now more usually written in English as they happen in their local language, sometimes even with diacritical marks that do not normally appear in English.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

When they express themselves it is incandescent hatred that shines forth, the rage of repudiation, the ecstasy of negation.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

When the proprietor dies, the establishment should become a corporation until it is either acquired by another proprietor or the government decides to drop it.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.

When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

When all else fails, it is argued that open sessions slow down governmental operations.

When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.

When a person meets God's requirements for the experience of forgiveness he is forgiven.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another, it is only natural.

When a man is laid to rest, he is entitled to stay put.

When I talked to Ching about it, he said, Everyone can learn, if he is not a Reactionary or lazy.