In this essay, I will talk about the topic “Why Are There Two Lowercase A’s?,” and I will do my absolute best to incorporate as much pertinent information as I possibly can. “The TL;DR is that it’s basically a historical accident : There were loads of variations of the letter ‘a’ and one became standard … Read more
“The TL;DR is that it’s basically a historical accident : There were loads of variations of the letter ‘a’ and one became standard in printing while a less fancy one became standard in handwriting, presumably because people are lazy when they have to do things by hand,” writes Reddit user F0sh. What a letter a? … Read more
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the modern english alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet Its name in English is a (pronounced /ˈeɪ/), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the ancient greek letter alpha , from which it derives. Why are there two lowercase a’s? “The … Read more
“The TL;DR is that it’s basically a historical accident : There were loads of variations of the letter ‘a’ and one became standard in printing while a less fancy one became standard in handwriting, presumably because people are lazy when they have to do things by hand,” writes Reddit user F0sh. What a letter a? … Read more
“The TL;DR is that it’s basically a historical accident : There were loads of variations of the letter ‘a’ and one became standard in printing while a less fancy one became standard in handwriting, presumably because people are lazy when they have to do things by hand,” writes Reddit user F0sh. What a letter a? … Read more
“The TL;DR is that it’s basically a historical accident : There were loads of variations of the letter ‘a’ and one became standard in printing while a less fancy one became standard in handwriting, presumably because people are lazy when they have to do things by hand,” writes Reddit user F0sh. What a letter a? … Read more
N, or n, is the fourteenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is en (pronounced /ˈɛn/), plural ens. When was the letter N invented? The early form of the N was always closely associated with water. When the sign was used by the Phoenicians more … Read more