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acrophonically — ac·ro·phon·i·cal·ly … English syllables
acrophonically — adverb see acrophonic … Useful english dictionary
Acrophony — (Greek: acro uppermost, head + phonos sound) is the naming of letters of an alphabetic writing system so that a letter s name begins with the letter itself. For instance, apple, aardvark, and alpha are acrophonic names for the English letter A… … Wikipedia
Glagolitic alphabet — Infobox Writing system type=Alphabet name=Glagolitic time=862/863 to the Middle Ages languages=Old Church Slavic creator=Saints Cyril and Methodius sample=Kodex.Zograf.jpg caption=A page from the Zograf Kodex with text of the Gospel of Luke… … Wikipedia
NATO phonetic alphabet — Not to be confused with International Phonetic Alphabet. FAA radiotelephony alphabet and Morse code chart The NATO phonetic alphabet, more accurately known as the NATO spelling alphabet and also called the ICAO phonetic or spelling alphabet, the… … Wikipedia
Algiz — *Algiz, sometimes *Elhaz, is the reconstructed Proto Germanic name for the runic|ᛉ rune, representing the Proto Germanic terminal z (from PIE word final * s ). The reconstructed word *algiz (meaning elk ) is based on the name of the Anglo Saxon… … Wikipedia
Middle Bronze Age alphabets — The Middle Bronze Age alphabets are two similar undeciphered scripts, dated to be from the Middle Bronze Age (2000 1500 BCE), and believed to be ancestral to nearly all modern alphabets: * the Proto Sinaitic script discovered in the winter of… … Wikipedia
Braille contraction — Almost all literary Braille codes use contractions to decrease space and increase reading speed. The contractions presented here are used in the US literary Braille code.=Whole words contracted into a single letter=Almost all letters of the… … Wikipedia
acrophony — acrophonic /ak reuh fon ik/, acrophonetic /ak reuh feuh net ik/, adj. acrophonically, acrophonetically, adv. /euh krof euh nee/, n., pl. acrophonies. 1. the use of what was originally a logogram as a phonetic symbol for the initial sound of the… … Universalium
Defective alphabet — A defective alphabet is an alphabet that does not represent all the phonemic distinctions of a language. It is different from an irregular script, such as the English alphabet, which can distinguish all the phonemes of the language even if in… … Wikipedia
