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Dear Mr. Cruz, 100 Street California: Etymology
Dear Mr. Cruz, 100 Street California: Etymology
Cruz,
We sent you this letter to invite you for our annual celebration. Please allow us to know
more about you. A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. The
the spoken form of the language, although there is rarely a consistent, exact
about 44–than there are letters of the alphabet. [4] A letter may therefore be associated
with more than one phoneme, with the phoneme determined by the surrounding letters
or etymology of the word. Regional accents have a significant effect; the letter a can
range from five to twelve sounds depending on the origin of the speaker. [5] As an
example of positional effects, the letter c is pronounced [k] before a, o, u, or consonants
the c and s in fence and tense.
Yours truly,
Mary Clare