Each letter has an uppercase ("capital letter") and a lowercase ("small letter") form. Written English includes the digraphs: ch ci ck gh ng ph qu rh sc sh th ti wh wr zh. These are not …

Before a consonant sound represented by a vowel letter a is usual. but an also occurs though less frequently now than formerly. Before unstressed or weakly stressed syllables with initial h both …

Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter a. Any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the vowel (a) of hat, (ä) of father, (ā) of bake, or (ô) of call. The first …

This page lists the letters of the English alphabet from a to z. Vocabulary for ESL learners and teachers.

When do we use a and when do we use an? In speaking, we use a /ə/ before a consonant sound: …

2 days ago · From Middle English a, an, from Old English ān (“one; a; lone; sole”). More at one. The "n" was gradually lost before consonants in almost all dialects by the 15th century. …

At the present time the letter represents six principal vowel sounds: (1) its original value, the low back vowel, as in father; (2) an intermediate vowel, as in plan; (3) a closer vowel, further …

In English, the name of the letter is the long A sound, pronounced / ˈeɪ /. Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. The earliest known ancestor of …

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