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The Roman Letter: A Study of Notable Graven and Written Forms from Twenty Centuries in Which Our Latin Alphabet Moved toward Its High Destiny as the Basic Medium of Printed Communication throughout the Western World

Book by James Hayes; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1951

Subjects:

Paleography, Latin

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...the Greek and Roman letters. Fig. 1. Chalcidian Greek Alphabet. Cumae, Eighth Century...an almost complete alphabet of small letters. Used because it could...Parchment, and individual letters of the alphabet, etc. Alfred...
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Alpha to Omega: The Life & Times of the Greek Alphabet

Book by Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez; David R. Godine, 1983

Subjects:

Greek Language--Alphabet

Collections: Entire Library

...this was not all. The letters of the alphabet soon took on another function...innovation was the use of the letters of the alphabet in musical notation. The...this sort of thing: Their alphabet contains no letters that, when rotated on...
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A B C et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet

Book by Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez; David R. Godine, 1987

Subjects:

Latin Language--Alphabet, Latin Language--Glossaries, Vocabularies, Etc, Rome--Miscellanea

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...chapter of the book concerns a different letter of the canonical Classical Roman alphabet; the accompanying narratives look at English...dragooned to bear in procession the twenty-four letters of the alphabet, each on a big placard, to help the child...
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The Alphabet Abecedarium: Some Notes on Letters

Book by Richard A. Firmage; David R. Godine, 1993

Subjects:

Alphabet--History, Alphabets, Printing--History

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...language." Cyrillic alphabet letters Now, let us proceed with...of the letters of the Roman alphabet. Letters were originally regarded as...word for the whole series of letters -- " alphabet" -- comes from a combination...
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The Triumph of the Alphabet: A History of Writing

Book by A. C. Moorhouse; Henry Schuman, 1953

Subjects:

Alphabet, Writing

Collections: Entire Library

...letter forms --Order of letters in the alphabet. 2. Other scripts as source...Egyptian, and written in an alphabet of mainly Greek letters; though it is different...likeness to North Semitic alphabetic letters and with the same values...

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`Elementary, My Dear Djuna': Unreadable Simplicity in Barnes's Creatures in an Alphabet

Journal article by Daniela Caselli; Critical Survey, Vol. 13, 2001

Subjects:

Barnes, Djuna--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Creatures in an Alphabet. (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Narration (Rhetoric)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Natural history--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Creatures in an Alphabet, a sad ending of...is `the Garbo of letters (3) in these narratives...link between a letter of the alphabet and an object or...creates animals in an alphabet, and blurs the...observed in the letter A, which does not...
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Staging Language: Milca Mayerova and the Czech Book Alphabet

Journal article by Matthew S. Witkovsky; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004

Subjects:

Alphabet (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Mayerova, Milca--Criticism and interpretation, Mayerova, Milca--Performances, Nezval, Vitezslav--Authorship, Nezval, Vitezslav--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Teige, Karel--Criticism and interpretation, Teige, Karel--Works

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...Czech dictionaries as separate letters. "Alphabet" might be of limited comprehensibility...alphabetic forms: "The shapes of all alphabetic letters are borrowed from movement...result that in her version of "Alphabet," letters appear manifestly indissociable...
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'The Scarlet Letter' and the Book of Esther: Scriptural Letter and Narrative Life

Journal article by Matthew Gartner; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 23, 1995

Subjects:

Bible. O.T. Esther (Sacred text)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hawthorne, Nathaniel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Scarlet Letter (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Greek alphabet to the Roman alphabet. If we imagine Hawthorne brooding...the literal characters (the letters themselves) through which the...mutability, the arbitrariness of the letter; in each successive version...the background of the holy alphabets of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin...
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Reading Alphabet Books in Kindergarten: Effects of Instructional Emphasis and Media Practice

Journal article by Edna G. Brabham, Bruce A. Murray, Shelly Hudson Bowden; Journal of Research in Childhood Education, Vol. 20, 2006

Subjects:

Alphabets--Study and teaching, Elementary school students--Educational aspects, Elementary school students--Psychological aspects, Media programs (Education)--Research, Media programs--Research

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...knowledge of vocabulary in the alphabet books, letter names, phonetic cue reading...knowledge only for lower case letters. Second, alphabet books are so widely recommended...vocabulary taken from the 10 alphabet books, letter name knowledge, use of phonetic...
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Spelling Alphabet and Diagnostic Rhyme Test Intelligibility of Jammed Speech

Journal article by Astrid Schmidt-Nielsen; Military Psychology, Vol. 3, 1991

Subjects:

Psychology, Military--Periodicals, United States--Armed Forces--Periodicals

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...ICAO spelling alphabet was developed to...noise, and the letter names were selected...given a list of letter and digit names...how the spelling alphabet is used. They then...for the spelling alphabet where the letter names can also...

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Six Days: On Learning a New Alphabet

Magazine article by Jesse Wegman; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, May 1999

Subjects:

Greek alphabet, Language instruction

Collections: Entire Library

...that this new alphabet is the foundation...everything I know about letters and words would...Etruscans, most of the letters that found their...into the Roman alphabet, from which ours...what you get. The alphabet is not just letters; it is alive...
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Keeping the Lambda in the Greek Alphabet

Magazine article by Maureen Bogues; The Advocate, October 14, 1997

Subjects:

Associations, Gays, Greek letter societies--Recruiting, Lesbians

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Keeping the Lambda in the Greek Alphabet. by Maureen Bogues The nations only gay fraternity celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, while its lesbian...
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New-Alphabet Disease? It's Tough Suddenly Changing from One Alphabet to Another. Azerbaijan Is on Its Third One This Century

Magazine article by Toby Lester; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, July 1997

Subjects:

Azerbaijan--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...written in different alphabets. Newspapers have headlines in Latin letters, but almost all...written in Cyrillic letters) mandating a switch from the Cyrillic alphabet--which the decree...to a thirty-two-letter Latin alphabet. Firudin Jalilov...
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New-Alphabet Disease: It's Tough Suddenly Changing from One Alphabet to Another. Azerbaijan Is on Its Third One This Century

Magazine article by Toby Lester; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, July 1997

Subjects:

Alphabets--Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan, Language and languages

Collections: Entire Library

...written in different alphabets. Newspapers have headlines in Latin letters, but almost all...written in Cyrillic letters) mandating a switch from the Cyrillic alphabet--which the decree...to a thirty-two-letter Latin alphabet. Firudin Jalilov...
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The Abandoned Alphabet of Freedom: D

Magazine article by Mark Kingwell; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 110, Winter 2003

Subjects:

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Composition, Mental disorders--Analysis, Mental illness--Analysis, Slaves--Evaluation, Stoicism--Analysis

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...hipsters visual encyclopedia. I wanted The Alphabet of Freedom to be the same thing, only...keywords that would appear in it, each letter entry to be a miniature essay in the triumphs...over-ambitious encyclopedic projects before it, The Alphabet of Freedom had to be abandoned. As a final...

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You Are What You Eat, So Follow the Alphabet

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), August 3, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

You Are What You Eat, So Follow the Alphabet. A healthy diet should include a range of vitamins and minerals. But what are they for and what foods contain them? HELEN MCGURK...
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Your Wheels: Audi and Mercedes Throw Contrasts into Alphabet Soup

Newspaper article by Richard Sherriff; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), March 30, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Your Wheels: Audi and Mercedes Throw Contrasts into Alphabet Soup. by Richard Sherriff DESPITE views on BMW, Germany is just about to release two very important cars though theyre...
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Alphabet Soup Used to Polish the Cadillac Image

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 7, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Byline: Frank Aukofer, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Alphabet soup must be good for the automotive soul. Since Cadillac started renaming its new cars with triple-letter designations, its gone on a roll of escalating sales. We now have...
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[0] OUR FAMILY TREE IS AS EASY AS ABC; Names Always Follow the Alphabet

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), February 18, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ABC; Names Always Follow the Alphabet. Byline: FRAN BOWDEN...just have a selection from one letter to deal with." He does however...still managed to reach the letter T. "My daughter Irene is...would be lovely to complete the alphabet, but we will remain one big...
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'Patriotic' Alphabet for the Young; Cheney's Book Explains Country's Ideals

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 30, 2002

Subjects:

Cheney, Dick

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...choosing words to coincide with certain letters of the alphabet was easier for some, more difficult...here first." Mrs. Cheneys favorite letter in the book, "Z," is described as "the end of the alphabet, but not of Americas story." Mrs...

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C , Letter of the Alphabet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

C , letter of the alphabet third letter of the alphabet . In position and form, but not in meaning, it corresponds...it is the symbol of the element carbon . The capital letter is the Roman numeral for 100...
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Q , Letter of the Alphabet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Q , letter of the alphabet 17th letter of the alphabet , corresponding to the koppa of western Greek alphabets. U must follow the letter in English (e.g., queen, question ), and the combination...
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U , Letter of the Alphabet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

U , letter of the alphabet 21st letter of the alphabet , corresponding to the Greek upsilon Gr.,=u without the...being made between the consonantal and vocalic uses of the letter. The fixing of modern orthography, however, has restricted...
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E , Letter of the Alphabet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

E , letter of the alphabet fifth letter of the alphabet . It is a usual symbol for a mid-front vowel, such as e in the English step. A mid-front vowel was represented by Greek epsilon Gr.,= e without the aspirate, to which E corresponds...
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M , Letter of the Alphabet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

M , letter of the alphabet 13th letter of the alphabet , usually representing a bilabial nasal as in the English much. It corresponds with the Greek mu. M is the Roman numeral for 1,000. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...

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