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| In English, "a" by itself frequently 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/}} as in ''ace'' and ''major'', due to effects of the ]. | |||
| In most other languages that use the Latin alphabet, "a" denotes an ] ({{IPA|/a/}}). In the ], variants of "a" denote various ]s. In ], capital "A" denotes the ] and lowercase "a" denotes the ]. | |||
| "A" is the third common used letter in English, and the second most common in ] and ]. In one study, on average, about 3.68% of letters used in English tend to be ‹a›s, while the number is 6.22% in Spanish and 3.95% in French.<ref name="Trinity College" /> | |||
| "A" is often used to denote something or someone of a better or more prestigious quality or status: A-, A or A+, the best grade that can be assigned by teachers for students' schoolwork; A grade for clean restaurants; ] celebrities, etc. Such associations can have a ] effect as exposure to the letter A has been found to improve performance, when compared with other letters.<ref>{{Cite document |url=http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20100903-20689.html |title=Letters affect exam results |date=9 March 2010 |publisher=British Psychological Society |postscript=<!--None-->}}</ref> | |||
| A ] ({{IPA|"ɐ"}}) is used by the ] for the ], while a turned capital "A" ("∀") is used in ] to specify ]. | |||
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| ==Codes for computing== | ==Codes for computing== | ||
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A (/ˈeɪ/; named a, plural aes) is the first letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.
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Codes for computing
In Unicode, the capital "A" is codepoint U+0041 and the lower case "a" is U+0061.
The ASCII code for capital "A" is 65 and for lower case "a" is 97; or in binary 01000001 and 01100001, respectively.
The EBCDIC code for capital "A" is 193 and for lowercase "a" is 129; or in binary 11000001 and 10000001, respectively.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "A" and "a" for upper and lower case, respectively.
See also
References
- "A" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989). Aes is the plural of the name of the letter. The plural of the letter itself is As, A's, as, a's.
- "Javascript Unicode Chart". Retrieved 2009-03-08.
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External links
- History of the Alphabet
Texts on Wikisource:
- “A” in A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - Beach, Chandler B., ed. (1914). The New Student's Reference Work. Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921). "A". Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company.
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