When used by English scribes, it became known as ond , and they did something very clever with it. The trend grew popular beyond scribes practicing shorthand and it became common to see it on official documents and signage, but since it realistically had a pretty limited usage and could occasionally be confusing, it eventually faded away.
You may have seen this in old books or other documents. Sometimes the letter S will be replaced by a character that looks a bit like an F.
It was also kind of silly and weird, since no other letters behaved that way, so around the beginning of the 19th century, the practice was largely abandoned and the modern lowercase S became king. For this particular letter, we can actually point to its exact origin.
It was invented by a scribe named Alexander Gill the Elder in the year and meant to represent a velar nasal, which is found at the end of words like king, ring, thing , etc. The English alphabet starts with the letter a and finishes with the letter z. We always write the alphabet in the same order:. This order is called "alphabetical order". We often write lists in alphabetical order.
For example, to write a list of countries in alphabetical order, we start with countries that begin with the letter A, then with countries that begin with B, and so on. For example:. If more than one word begins with the letter A, we put them in order based on the second letter, and then the third letter, and so on:. However, this gives the frequency of letters in English text, which is dominated by a relatively small number of common words.
For word games, it is often the frequency of letters in English vocabulary, regardless of word frequency, which is of more interest.
We did an analysis of the letters occurring in the words listed in the main entries of the Concise Oxford Dictionary 11th edition revised, and came up with the following table:. The third column represents proportions, taking the least common letter q as equal to 1.
Rather roman alphabet , singular. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The term for the name of the script is Latin, at least according to Unicode. Improve this answer. Yes Latin is what the OP wants.
Roman is a style of lettering, as opposed for example to Italic , a different style of lettering Now in Cyrillic text, do we still say Roman and Italic for these two styles? Or is there some other way, like upright and slanted or something? GEdgar There is some ambiguity in the term Roman in that it can be used to mean both the Latin alphabet as used by the Romans and the modern upright text. Until the Unicode consortium needed to come up with names for all those characters, I'm not sure anybody would have classified some of those as "Latin".
That's strange - the noun for putting a different text into the Latin alphabet is "romanization".
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