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The English alphabet consists of 26 letters. Each letter has an uppercase ("capital letter") and a lowercase ("small letter") form.
| # | Capital Letter | Small Letter | Phonic (pronunciation) | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | /eɪ/, /æ/ | a |
| 2 | B | b | /biː/ | bee |
| 3 | C | c | /siː/ | cee |
| 4 | D | d | /diː/ | dee |
| 5 | E | e | /iː/ | e |
| 6 | F | f | /ɛf/ | ef |
| 7 | G | g | /dʒiː/ | gee |
| 8 | H | h | /(h)eɪtʃ/ | (h)aitch |
| 9 | I | i | /aɪ/ | i |
| 10 | J | j | /dʒeɪ/ | jay |
| 11 | K | k | /keɪ/ | kay |
| 12 | L | l | /ɛl/ | el |
| 13 | M | m | /ɛm/ | em |
| 14 | N | n | /ɛn/ | en |
| 15 | O | o | /oʊ/ | o |
| 16 | P | p | /piː/ | pee |
| 17 | Q | q | /kjuː/ | cue |
| 18 | R | r | /ɑːr/ | ar |
| 19 | S | s | /ɛs/ | ess |
| 20 | T | t | /tiː/ | tee |
| 21 | U | u | /juː/ | u |
| 22 | V | v | /viː/ | vee |
| 23 | W | w | /ˈdʌbəl. | double-u |
| 24 | X | x | /ɛks/ | ex |
| 25 | Y | y | /waɪ/ | wy |
| 26 | Z | z | /zi/zɛd/ | zee/zed |
Notes
- Five of the letters in the English Alphabet are vowels: A, E, I, O, U.
- The remaining 21 letters are consonants: B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y.
Written English includes the digraphs: ch ci ck gh ng ph qu rh sc sh th ti wh wr zh. These are not considered separate letters of the alphabet. - Two letters, “A” and “I,” also constitute words.
- Until fairly recently (until 1835), the 27th letter of the alphabet (right after "z") was the ampersand (&).
- The English Alphabet is based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets originating from the classical Latin alphabet.
Old English
- The Old English alphabet letters were 29: A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z & ⁊ Ƿ Þ Ð Æ
- The Old English alphabet was recorded in the year 1011 by a monk named Byrhtferð and included the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet (including ampersand) and 5 additional English letters: Long S (ſ), Eth (Ð and ð), Thorn (þ), Wynn (ƿ) and Ash (ᚫ; later Æ and æ).
- With respect to Modern English, Old English did not include J, U, and W.
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“Small letters”; letters of the alphabet that are not capital letters or upper-case letters.
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MORE ABOUT LOWER CASE LETTERS
What are
lowercase letters?Lowercase letters are the shorter, smaller versions of letters (like w), as opposed to the bigger, taller versions (like W), which are called uppercase letters or capital letters.
The adjective lowercase can also be used as a noun meaning the same thing as lowercase letter, though this is much less commonly used. The adjective uppercase can also be used as a noun in this way. As an adjective, uppercase means the same thing as capital, and uppercase letters can also be called capitals.
Some lowercase letters are just shorter, smaller versions of their uppercase counterparts (like lowercase w and uppercase W or lowercase c and uppercase C), but in many cases the two versions of the letter take different forms altogether, such as lowercase a and uppercase A or lowercase b and uppercase B.
To capitalize a word is to make its first letter a capital or uppercase letter. The word uppercase can be used as a verb to mean the same thing. The word lowercase can be used as a verb meaning to make a letter lowercase.
For example, to lowercase the word Polish (which is here spelled with an uppercase p), you would write it with a lowercase P, as polish.
In English, uppercase letters are used at the beginning of words for a few different reasons. It is considered a standard rule of English to use an uppercase letter to start proper nouns (which are nouns that refer to specific people, places, or things—meaning one’s that have specific names), such as Jess, Mexico, and Nintendo. Using an uppercase or lowercase letter at the start of a word can change the way the reader interprets its meaning, as in the case of polish (a verb meaning to make something shinier) and Polish (an adjective describing someone from Poland) or apple (the fruit) and Apple (the company).
We also use an uppercase letter for the first letter of the first word in a sentence. Sometimes, we use an uppercase letter for the first letter of each word in a title, as in To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before.
This is sometimes called title case.
Some acronyms and abbreviations are written using all uppercase letters, such as NASA and U.S. A word written entirely in uppercase letters (like WHAT) is said to be written in caps or all caps.
Using lowercase letters in any of these cases typically indicates that the communication is casual or informal, such as in text messages or online posts.
Example: A lot of people exclusively use lowercase letters in text messages unless they want to emphasize something.
Where does
lowercase letter come from?The term lowercase letter has been used since at least the 1680s. The words uppercase and lowercase come from printing. The process of physically printing things with printing presses involved trays, called cases, that were divided into compartments for holding different kinds of type (blocks with letters on them).
The upper case held capital letters and the lower case held what came to be known as lowercase letters.
It can be confusing to know whether to use uppercase or lowercase letters in certain situations, but a capitalization guide can help.
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What are some other forms related to lowercase letter?
- lower-case letter (alternate hyphenated spelling)
- lower case letter (alternate two-word spelling)
What are some synonyms for lowercase letter?
- lowercase (when lowercase is used as a noun)
What are some words that share a root or word element with lowercase letter?
- lowercase
- uppercase
- uppercase letter
- letter
What are some words that often get used in discussing lowercase letter?
- capital letter
- capital
- capitalization
- spelling
- first
- word
- sentence
- title
How are
lowercase letters used in real life?In most contexts, the majority of letters in a text are lowercase letters.
Uppercase letters are used in the beginning of names and other proper nouns, at the beginning of sentences, at the beginning of words in titles, and in some abbreviations. Informal communication like text messages and online posts are sometimes written entirely in lowercase letters.
A capital letter in my code where there was supposed to be a lowercase letter just drove me insane for four hours because I didn't see it.
— Kyle Roth (@jkroth2987) October 22, 2015
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i got a new phone and my new keyboard doesn’t know that i only use lowercase letters so now all my texts are being autocorrected into formal work emails
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Vowels of the Russian alphabet:
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a e yo i o u y e yu ya
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A E Y O Y O Y Y Y Y
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A E I O U Y E Yu Z
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B C D F G Y K L M N P R S T V W Y
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B, C, D, D, W, Z, Y, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, F, X, C, H, W, S.
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Old Slavonic - the first Cyrillic alphabet
Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic - the first Cyrillic alphabet of 46 letters, developed at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries to record the Old Church Slavonic and later Church Slavonic languages.
| No. | Letters | Title | Translit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aꙁъ | a | |
| 2 | bѹkꙑ | b | |
| 3 | see | v | |
| 4 | verb | g | |
| 5 | good | d | |
| 6 | yes | e | |
| 7 | live | ž | |
| 8 | sѣlo | dz | |
| 9 | ꙁєmlꙗ | z | |
| 10 | others | i | |
| 11 | and / izhєi | i | |
| 12 | ərv | gj | |
| 13 | kako | k | |
| 14 | people | l | |
| 15 | thoughts | m | |
| 16 | ours | n | |
| 17 | ony | or | |
| 18 | chambers | p | |
| 19 | rci | r | |
| 20 | word | s | |
| 21 | hard | t | |
| 22 | sk | and | |
| 23 | frt | f | |
| 24 | hѣrъ | x | |
| 25 | big | or | |
| 26 | ѿ | from | |
| 27 | qi | c | |
| 28 | worm | - | |
| 29 | joppa | q | |
| 30 | sha | š | |
| 31 | shcha (shta, shcha) | st | |
| 32 | erb | - | |
| 33 | years | ū | |
| 34 | er | - | |
| 35 | ꙗт | æ | |
| 36 | їotirovan ѹkъ | ju | |
| 37 | jotted aꙁъ | and | |
| 38 | je | ||
| 39 | ѭсъ small | ę | |
| 40 | ѭсъ єлік | ǫ | |
| 41 | ję | ||
| 42 | jǫ | ||
| 43 | ѯї | ks | |
| 44 | ѱї | ps | |
| 45 | fit | θ | |
| 46 | horse | ü |
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Updated December 12, 2022 Views: 51 293 Author: Dmitry Petrov Hello, dear readers of the KtoNaNovenkogo.
ru blog. All letters of the alphabet, when written, can have two sizes - large or small. True, these are not official names, but more colloquial. In textbooks, they are called uppercase and lowercase. To avoid confusion in the future, we immediately define:
- Uppercase are large letters that stand out from the rest. They are also called "caps".
- Lower case are small letters. It's better to say "regular" though, as this size fits most of any text.
Why such names? But here we must turn to the history of the development of writing.
The easiest way to explain is about lowercase letters. These are those that are written to the size of the string. They are all the same size, and do not stand out from each other. And also do not go beyond the size of the lines - hence the name.
The history of capital letters is much more interesting. Previously, capital letters were only at the beginning of the book. And they tried to highlight these letters as much as possible - they were not even written, they were drawn in order to get a real work of art.
And they had a corresponding name - DRAWINGS.
Over time, such letters began to be used not only at the beginning of the book, they were used to separate chapters and parts of the work. And even when printing appeared, the need for artists and clerks did not disappear.
The fact is that on printing presses all the letters were the same size. Therefore, capital letters were written separately in books. This is where the name "caps" comes from.
By the way, the most common capital letter used was red paint. From here came another well-known expression in Russian - "to write from the red line."
The difference between uppercase and lowercase letters
There are 33 letters in Russian, and for each there is an uppercase and lowercase version. Moreover, the spelling of some letters is seriously different. For example, "A" and "a", "B" and "b", "E" and "e", "E" and "e".
But for the most part, only the size of the letters of the Russian alphabet changes.
But in the English alphabet there are fewer letters - only 26, but there are much more differences between uppercase and lowercase letters. There are even fewer of those who have the same spelling.
From this point of view, the Greek alphabet can be considered unique. Moreover, in two respects. First, it has a different number of uppercase and lowercase letters, 24 and 25 respectively. The fact is that the 18th letter "Sigma" in lower case can be written in two versions at once. And secondly, almost all letters have a different lowercase and uppercase spelling.
But by the way, not all languages have a division of letters into large and small. For example, Arabs, Koreans, Jews, and Thais all write in the same size. And if you need to highlight something, then just increase the font, but still use lowercase letters.
What are capital letters for? We have already said that at the dawn of the emergence of writing, capital letters were placed only at the beginning of the work.
But over time, they decided that they should also be at the beginning of each sentence, and proper names should also begin with them. At the beginning of the 17th century, the rule was extended. In addition to names in capital letters, it was decided to write the titles and titles of the highest persons (then it was called "dignity"). First of all, this concerned the words "Tsar" and "Patriarch", and after that "Prince", "Voivode", "Boyar" and so on.
Subsequently, all nouns that were borrowed from other languages began to be added to words with a capital letter. For example, "Professor", "Literature", "Grammar", "General" and others. But all this was only conditional. Of course, they could have been punished for the “king” with a small letter, but other words could be written as you like.
And only at the end of the 19th century, the philologist and professor of the Imperial University Yakov Grot decided to systematize the rules. His work "Russian Spelling" was published in 1885.
Since then, it has been updated and reprinted more than 20 times. But the foundations laid by the Grotto are still valid today.
So, words that must be written with capital (capital) letters:
- Names, surnames, patronymics and nicknames of people. If the nickname consists of several words, then only the first begins with a capital letter.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, he is the Sun of Russian poetry.
- Animal names:
Bug, Ball, Kashtanka, Mu-mu.
- Characters from fairy tales;
Mermaid, Cinderella, Puss in Boots.
- Place names (countries, cities, regions, seas, rivers, mountains, etc.). Again, if there are several words, only the first letter is capitalized.
Russia, Moscow, Pacific Ocean, Sverdlovsk region, Mount Elbrus.
But there are exceptions: the Russian Federation, Veliky Novgorod, etc. - Names of historical events and eras:
Battle of Stalingrad, St. Bartholomew's Night, World War I, the Renaissance
Exception: the Great Patriotic War.
