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The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters).
The next three words come after Aster because their fourth letter (the first one that differs) is r, which comes after e (the fourth letter of Aster) in the alphabet. Those words themselves are ordered based on their sixth letters (l, n and p respectively). Then comes At, which differs from the preceding words in the second letter (t comes ...
/ ˈ b r uː m d / 10 Shaw: A variant of broughammed, used by George Bernard Shaw in a piece of journalism. schmaltzed / ˈ ʃ m ɔː l t s t /, / ˈ ʃ m ɒ l t s t /, / ˈ ʃ m æ l t s t / 10 OED: Meaning "imparted a sentimental atmosphere to" e.g. of music; with a 1969 attestation for the past tense. schnappsed / ˈ ʃ n æ p s t / 10 Sc.Am.
The High German consonant shift is a good example of a chain shift, as was its predecessor, the first Germanic consonant shift. For example, phases 1 and 2 left the language without a /t/ phoneme, as this had shifted to /s/ or / t͡s /. Phase 3 filled this gap ( /d/ > /t/ ), but left a new gap at /d/, which phase 4 then filled ( /θ/ > /d/ ).
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
It doesn't apply to words like science or efficient, in which the –ie-combination does follow the letter c but isn't pronounced 'ee'." David Crystal discusses the rule in his 2012 history of English spelling. He first restricts it to the / iː / vowel, then accounts for several classes of exception.
Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi ( c. 801 –873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers. Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in 1450 ...