3. AN ALPHABET (from alpha and beta) is the letters of
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emark.—The English alphabet is simply the Latin alphabetapplied to the Hnglish language. The Latin alphabet was de-rived from the Greek, which was probably derived from thePhoenician, or from the Hebrew, with which it is closely allied. 4, THE NAME of a letter is the appellation by which itis known.
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