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| '']'' was the last letter of the Western ] and ]s, and probably represented a cross. The sound value of Semitic ''Taw'', ] Tαυ (''Tau''), ] and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing {{IPAblink|t}} in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in all of these alphabets. | '']'' was the last letter of the Western ] and ]s, and probably represented a cross. The sound value of Semitic ''Taw'', ] Tαυ (''Tau''), ] and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing {{IPAblink|t}} in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in all of these alphabets. | ||
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| In English, ‹t› often denotes the ] (] and ]: {{IPAc-en|t}}), as in ''tea'', ''tee'', or "ties". | In English, ‹t› often denotes the ] (] and ]: {{IPAc-en|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== | ==Codes for computing== | ||
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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 |
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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".
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
References
- "T" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee," op. cit.
- Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
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