[DOC] [TLE] English alphabet - Wikipedia [PAR] The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters the 
same letters that ... The a-e ligature ash ( ) was adopted as a letter in its own 
right, named after a ... The letters u and j, as distinct from v and i, were introduced 
in the 16th ... with one syllable, while cursd (adjective) is pronounced with two. [DOC] [TLE] English orthography - Wikipedia [PAR] English orthography is the system of writing conventions used to represent 
spoken English in ... Most of the spelling conventions in Modern English were 
derived from the ... Thus, in the word ship (pronounced /p/), the digraph sh
 (two letters) ... The letter e also often marks an altered pronunciation of a 
preceding... [DOC] [TLE] Hard and soft C - Wikipedia [PAR] In the Latin-based orthographies of many European languages (including 
English), a distinction between hard and soft c occurs in which c 
represents two distinct phonemes. The sound of a hard c (which often 
precedes the non-front vowels a, ... There was no soft c in classical Latin, 
where it was always pronounced as... [DOC] [TLE] The alphabet used to have other letters -- meet two | Dictionary.com ... [PAR] Oct 11, 2010 ... As Modern English evolved, the Old English letters were dropped or ... In the 
Latin alphabet, the y was the symbol that most closely ... The letters u and j 
didn't join what we know as the alphabet until ..... We also have the letter / 
which is a softer th sound. ..... A thief always thinks he's being robbed! [DOC] [TLE] Enuf or Enough? Why Is English Spelling So Random? | Dictionary ... [PAR] May 27, 2014 ... I have always wished we could use the phonetic alphabet to 'spell' ...... We have 
one letter (e) to represent the first vowel sounds in both ... So just stop being 
stubborn about the idiotic spelling of modern English (why would you want to ... If 
British and Canadians can add 'u' to color and switch around letters... [DOC] [TLE] The letter U nearly missed being in the alphabet. | Dictionary.com Blog [PAR] Apr 9, 2012 ... There was the sound for the letter we call U, but it didn't look like U. It looked like 
V. The Classical Latin alphabet had only 23 letters, not the 26... [DOC] [TLE] The Greek Alphabet [PAR] How close is the sound of Modern Greek to that of Classic Greek? ... texts in the 
reconstructed pronunciation, that, to Greeks is tantamount to sacrilege. ... In 
general, the second letter of the alphabet, beta, was pronounced as [b] in Plato's 
..... That is, English speakers tend to pronounce Greek [e] almost always as [ei] (
as in... [DOC] [TLE] orthography - Why is "q" followed by a "u"? - English Language ... [PAR] Feb 12, 2011 ... There is no rule that q must be followed by u in all circumstances. ... letters for the 
[k] sound: C K Q. However, they only had one letter to ... exist variations on the 
English /k/ sound that we don't have in English, ... English Word | Original word | 
Language quandary | quando | Latin ... sumlic Sep 2 '15 at 4:53... [DOC] [TLE] 12 Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet | Mental Floss [PAR] Dec 13, 2012 ... We tossed aside quite a few letters as our language grew. ... wynn was adapted 
to the Latin alphabet because it didn't have a letter that ... You could stick two u's (
technically v's, since Latin didn't have u ... When the throaty sound turned into "f" 
in Modern English, the "gh"s were left behind." ..... Follow Us. [DOC] [TLE] Why is one man primarily responsible for the existence of the letter "J," [PAR] Apr 8, 2011 ... Recently we asked you to let us know which of the twenty-six letters of the ... the 
father of the letter /j/,

Question: A Latin link of 2 letters pronounced as one is why we, in modern English, always follow this letter with U
Answer: Q