The document discusses the names of the letters in the English alphabet. It provides:
1) The modern English name, Latin name, and pronunciations of each letter name from various time periods including modern, Latin, old French, and middle English.
2) The relative frequency of each letter in the English language based on letter counts in large samples of written text.
3) Notes on variant names for some letters, such as "aitch" and "haitch" for H, and "zed" and "zee" for Z.
The document discusses the names of the letters in the English alphabet. It provides:
1) The modern English name, Latin name, and pronunciations of each letter name from various time periods including modern, Latin, old French, and middle English.
2) The relative frequency of each letter in the English language based on letter counts in large samples of written text.
3) Notes on variant names for some letters, such as "aitch" and "haitch" for H, and "zed" and "zee" for Z.
The document discusses the names of the letters in the English alphabet. It provides:
1) The modern English name, Latin name, and pronunciations of each letter name from various time periods including modern, Latin, old French, and middle English.
2) The relative frequency of each letter in the English language based on letter counts in large samples of written text.
3) Notes on variant names for some letters, such as "aitch" and "haitch" for H, and "zed" and "zee" for Z.
The document discusses the names of the letters in the English alphabet. It provides:
1) The modern English name, Latin name, and pronunciations of each letter name from various time periods including modern, Latin, old French, and middle English.
2) The relative frequency of each letter in the English language based on letter counts in large samples of written text.
3) Notes on variant names for some letters, such as "aitch" and "haitch" for H, and "zed" and "zee" for Z.
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Letter names[edit]
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The names of the letters are sometimes spelled out. Some compound words (e.g., tee-shirt, deejay, emcee, okay, etc.), derived forms (e.g., exed out, effing, to eff and blind, aitchless, etc.) and objects named after letters (e.g., em in printing and wye in railroading) may be written with the letter names. The spellings listed below are from the Oxford English Dictionary. Plurals of consonant names are formed by adding -s (e.g., bees, efs, ems) or -es in the cases of aitch, ess, and ex (i.e., aitches, esses, exes). Plurals of vowel names add - es (i.e., aes, ees, ies, oes, ues), but these are rare. Most commonly, the letter (generally in capitalized form) and not its name is used, in which case plural just adds -s.
Name Name pronunciation
Lette Frequenc r Old Middle y Modern Lati Modern Lati Frenc Englis English n English n h h
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