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== Usage ==
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In ], the letter "A" by itself usually denotes the ] ({{IPA|/æ/}}) as in ''pad'', the ] ({{IPA|/ɑː/}}) as in ''father'', or, in concert with a later orthographic vowel, the diphthong {{IPA|/eɪ/}} (though the pronunciation varies with the dialect) as in ''ace'' and ''major'', due to effects of the ].

In most other languages that use the Latin alphabet, the letter A denotes either an ] ({{IPA|/ɑ/}}), or an ] ({{IPA|/a/}}). In the ], variants of the letter A denote various ]s. In ], capital A denotes the ] and lowercase a denotes the ].

''A'' is the third-most common letter in English, and the second-most common in ] and ]. On average, about 8.2% of letters in English tend to be ''A''s, while the number is 6.2% in Spanish and 4% in French.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://starbase.trincoll.edu/~crypto/resources/LetFreq.html|title=Percentages of Letter frequencies per Thousand words|accessdate=2006-05-01}}</ref>


== Codes for computing == == Codes for computing ==

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A
ISO basic
Latin alphabet
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz

The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (Template:PronEng), plural A's, As, as, or a's.

NERD'S!!!! A IS THE FIRST LETTER OF THE ALPHATBET!!! '''A''' bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Without A i would be sad ='{


A as in potatoe

Without a there wouldn't be a B

Codes for computing

class="template-letter-box | In Unicode the capital A is codepoint U+0041 and the lowercase a is U+0061.

In positional numeral systems with base higher than 10, A is the character used to represent decimal 10, or in binary, 1010

The ASCII code for capital A is 65 and for lowercase a is 97; or in binary 01000001 and 01100001, respectively.

The EBCDIC code for capital A is 193 and for lowercase a is 129.

The morse code for A is dit dah or a dot and a dash.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "&#65;" and "&#97;" for upper and lower case respectively.

See also

External references

  1. "a", Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, (1993)
  2. Merriam-Webster's Manual for Writers and Editors p. 61 (1998); Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2003) p. 281
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Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letter A with diacritics
Áá Àà Ăă Ắắ Ằằ Ẵẵ Ẳẳ Ââ Ấấ Ầầ Ẫẫ Ẩẩ Ǎǎ Åå Ǻǻ Ää Ǟǟ Ãã Ȧȧ Ǡǡ Ąą Ą́ą́ Ą̃ą̃ Āā Ā̀ā̀ Ảả
Ȁȁ A̋a̋ Ȃȃ Ạạ Ặặ Ậậ Ḁḁ Ⱥⱥ Ꞻꞻ ᶏ ẚ
Two-letter combinations
Aa Ab Ac Ad Ae Af Ag Ah Ai Aj Ak Al Am An Ao Ap Aq Ar As At Au Av Aw Ax Ay Az
AA AB AC AD AE AF AG AH AI AJ AK AL AM AN AO AP AQ AR AS AT AU AV AW AX AY AZ
aA bA cA dA eA fA gA hA iA jA kA lA mA nA oA pA qA rA sA tA uA vA wA xA yA zA
AA BA CA DA EA FA GA HA IA JA KA LA MA NA OA PA QA RA SA TA UA VA WA XA YA ZA
Letter A-digit and digit-letter A combinations
A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 0A 1A 2A 3A 4A 5A 6A 7A 8A 9A
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