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T (/ˈtiː/; named tee) is the 20th letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English language.

History

Proto-Semitic T	Phoenician taw	Etruscan T	Greek Tau

Taw was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets, and probably represented a cross. The sound value of Semitic Taw, Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing [t] in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in all of these alphabets.

Usage

In English, ‹t› often denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive (International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA: /t/), as in tea, tee, or "ties".

Lower case t can also be used as an abbreviation in order communicate with a dork or a nerd or a teresa ramirez. In case of an emergency you can use the distress call, oink oink!

Codes for computing

class="template-letter-box | In Unicode, the capital T is code point U+0054 and the lower case t is U+0074.

The ASCII code for capital T is 84 and for lowercase t is 116; or in binary 01010100 and 01110100, correspondingly.

The EBCDIC code for capital T is 227 and for lowercase t is 163.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "T" and "t" for upper and lower case respectively.

See also

• Т, т – Te (Cyrillic)
• Τ, τ – Tau (Greek)

References

1. "T" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee," op. cit.
2. Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. Retrieved 2008-06-25.

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