A or a is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the
modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.[1]
Its name in English is a (pronounced /ˈeɪ/), plural aes.[nb
1] It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha,
from which it derives.[2] The uppercase version consists of
the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle
by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in
two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The
latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on
it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is
also found in italic type.
he uncial ⟨B⟩ and half-uncial ⟨b⟩ introduced by the Gregorian and Irish missions gradually developed into the Insular scripts' ⟨b⟩. These Old English Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned under King Canute in the early 11th century. The Norman Conquest popularised the Carolingian half-uncial forms which latter developed into blackletter ⟨ b ⟩. Around 1300, letter case was increasingly distinguished, with upper- and lower-case B taking separate meanings. Following the advent of printing in the 15th century, Holy Roman Empire (Germany) and Scandinavia continued to use forms of blackletter (particularly Fraktur), while England eventually adopted the humanist and antiqua scripts developed in Renaissance Italy from a combination of Roman inscriptions and Carolingian texts. The present forms of the English cursive B were developed by the 17th century.
A or a is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the
modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.[1]
Its name in English is a (pronounced /ˈeɪ/), plural aes.[nb
1] It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha,
from which it derives.[2] The uppercase version consists of
the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle
by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in
two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The
latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on
it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is
also found in italic type.
A or a is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the
modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.[1]
Its name in English is a (pronounced /ˈeɪ/), plural aes.[nb
1] It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha,
from which it derives.[2] The uppercase version consists of
the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle
by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in
two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The
latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on
it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is
also found in italic type.
A or a is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the
modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.[1]
Its name in English is a (pronounced /ˈeɪ/), plural aes.[nb
1] It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha,
from which it derives.[2] The uppercase version consists of
the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle
by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in
two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The
latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on
it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is
also found in italic type.
In the English writing system ⟨f⟩ is used to represent the sound /f/, the voiceless labiodental fricative. It is often doubled at the end of words. Exceptionally, it represents the voiced labiodental fricative /v/ in the common word "of". F is the twelfth least frequently used letter in the English language (after C, G, Y, P, B, V, K, J, X, Q, and Z), with a frequency of about 2.23% in words.
Other languages
In the writing systems of other languages, ⟨f⟩ commonly represents /f/, [ɸ] or /v/.
A or a is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the
modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.[1]
Its name in English is a (pronounced /ˈeɪ/), plural aes.[nb
1] It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha,
from which it derives.[2] The uppercase version consists of
the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle
by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in
two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The
latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on
it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is
also found in italic type.