breathing is in the Phoenician alphabet Seems a little confusing Is it just a breath space Intake outtake   Commercial ats   What are all the  symbols doing in the middle of the article They look to me like placeholders for what ought to be inline images  SGBailey    The article seems to be adapted from the  Encyclopedia Britannica The s are also present in Project Gutenbergs version To fix it we will need someone with the paper version of EB or knowledge of the subject I have listed the article in WikipediaCleanup Hopefully someone will notice it      Top grade  I cut the limitation that A is the top grade in Englishspeaking school systems its much more widespread than that     Yeah I wasnt sure but changed it to that cause it certainly is used outside US      Eagle   According to Microsoft Encarta an early ancestor of the letter A is an Egyptian hieroglyph for Eagle   Writing   What about writing I only see printing characters here     Lax open front unrounded vowel   I Googled this and found only open front unrounded vowel as we dont have a finished entry for it Seems like that should be the link which we do already have an entry for Anybody disagree   Suggest  possible wiki links for A   An  has some possible wiki link suggestions for the A article   Can link aspect ratio international paper sizes A is a series of sizes with an aspect ratio of roughly  width to height with A being an example po  Can link British rock  bandJethro Tull see A album  A is a British rock band see A band Notes The article text has not been changed in any way Some of these suggestions may be wrong some may be right         Alfa  Thank you Georgia guy for making me feel free to discuss this  But for your permission  You likewise should feel free to read the page NATO phonetic alphabet where three of the four authorities listed spell it alfa including the ICAO which is the authority described as sponsoring the NATO phonetic alphabet in the opening paragraph  I see no reason to further clarify things in this article since they are fully discussed in the other one  If you do please leave alfa as the principal spelling    Feb  UTC Its my understanding as a former US Army member though which I would use the NATO phonetic alphabet that using Alfa instead of Alpha is because not all languages recognize the digraph ph as having the f sound The pronunciation of niner for  comes from the German word nein no and why US radio procedure calls for using negative and conversely affirmative instead See NATOphoneticalphabetusage    Next Page in Wikipedia I started here on A hoping there was a next page button so I could eventually read through the entire Wikipedia Any way of getting that functionality It would have to be added to the mediawiki software Its open source so if you can program you could create the feature send it to the developers and hope it makes its way into the official version   To put it another way there are currently about  articles on the English Wikipedia If you read through them for  hours a day  days a week spending say  minutes on each it would take you about  years to read through the encyclopedia during which time the number of articles would probably have increased many times over and many of the articles you read at the beginning would have changed since you last read them So I would suggest that reading through the encyclopedia from A to Z is not realistic and by the way the alphabetical sequence doesnt start at A as there are many articles with numeric hea