*THE 26 LETTERS OF THE “ENGLISH ALPHABET”*
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(from greek “alpha”)
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(from greek “beta”)
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[a letter is a ‘grapheme’ (or ‘written character’) in an alphabetic system of writing]
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(it is a ‘visual representation’ of the smallest unit of ‘spoken sound’)
(‘letters’ broadly correspond to ‘phonemes’ in the spoken form of the ‘language’, although there is rarely a consistent, exact correspondence between ‘letters’ and ‘phonemes’)
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(written signs in other writing systems are called ‘syllabograms’ (which denote a ‘syllable’) or ‘logograms’ (which indicate a ‘word’ or ‘phrase’))
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