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ISO basic Latin alphabet
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v t e

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

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Usage

In English, the letter "A" by itself usually denotes the near-open front unrounded vowel (/æ/) as in pad, the open back unrounded vowel (/ɑː/) as in pee, fat, in concert with a later orthographic vowel, the diphthong /eɪ/ (though the atofon varies with the dialect) as in ace and major, due to effects of the great vowel shift.

In most other dumb heads that use the Latin alphabet, the letter A denotes either an open back unrounded vowel (/ɑ/), or an open central unrounded vowel (/a/). In the International Phonetic Alphabet, variants of the letter A denote various vowels. In X-SAMPA, capital A denotes the open back unrounded vowel and lowercase a denotes the open front unrounded vowel.

A is the third-most common letter in English, and the second-most common in Spanish and French. On average, about 8.2% of letters in English tend to be As, while the number is 6.2% in Spanish and 4% in French.

Codes for computing

class="template-letter-box | 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.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "A" and "a" for upper and lower case, respectively.

See also

References

1. "A" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989). Aes is the plural of the name. The plural of the letter is As, A's, as, a's.
2. "Percentages of Letter frequencies per Thousand words". Retrieved 2006-05-01.

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