The New Student's Reference Work/A

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See the modern Wikipedia entry at A.


See also:

“Alpha (letter),” from the modern Wikipedia
 “A,” from the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911
 “A,” from The New Student's Reference Work of 1914
 “A,” from Collier's New Encyclopedia of 1921
 “A (entry),” from Easton's Bible Dictionary of 1897
 “Alpha and Omega,” from the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913


A, the first letter in the English alphabet and in many others. In English the letter has several different sounds, as in ah, at, all, ask, ale, fan, private, penal. In the French and other languages of Continental Europe it has but one sound; the broad a as in ah. This is the simplest vowel sound, given with the open mouth and throat.

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