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2. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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   Alphabet. An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the categories of sounds that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1] Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken ...

3. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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   Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century.

4. D'Nealian - Wikipedia

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   D'Nealian. The D'Nealian Method (sometimes misspelled Denealian) is a style of writing and teaching handwriting based on Latin script which was developed between 1965 and 1978 by Donald N. Thurber (1927–2020) in Michigan, United States. Building on his experience as a primary school teacher, Thurber aimed to make the transition from print ...

5. APCO radiotelephony spelling alphabet - Wikipedia

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   The APCO phonetic alphabet, a.k.a. LAPD radio alphabet, is the term for an old competing spelling alphabet to the ICAO radiotelephony alphabet, defined by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International from 1941 to 1974, that is used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other local and state law enforcement agencies across the state of California and ...

6. List of prime numbers - Wikipedia

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   Primes of the form b n − (b − 1) n, including the Mersenne primes and the cuban primes as special cases; Williams primes, of the form (b − 1)·b n − 1; Mills primes. Of the form ⌊θ 3 n ⌋, where θ is Mills' constant. This form is prime for all positive integers n. 2, 11, 1361, 2521008887, 16022236204009818131831320183 (OEIS: A051254)

7. Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia

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   Initial Teaching Alphabet. The Initial Teaching Alphabet ( I.T.A. or i.t.a.) is a variant of the Latin alphabet developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of a system of shorthand) in the early 1960s. It was not intended to be a strictly phonetic transcription of English sounds, or a spelling reform for English as ...