Why does a letter going through the mail have a familiar name?
Why do all letters in the alphabet have identical names?
On Wikipedia: From Middle English letter,
lettre, from Old French letre, from Latin littera (‘letter of the alphabet’; in plural, ‘epistle’), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek (diphthu00e9r, “tablet”).
What can I do if I am starting a new blog?
How can the envelope say that the note is actually a letter? What is the “letter” written in a note? If allowed, all the letters could be called letters.
Do it before your kid asks about the house owner.
Is there a Latin word’littera’ which means “letter” or “literature”. Is it really there? If this does not satisfy, teach your child the word “missive” and be done with it.
Everything started from Latin, where the term littera (from which letter via Old French lectre ) means both an althabetic letter and a writing, a document.
- c. (Latin), “graphic symbol, alphabetic sign, written character transmitting information about sound in speech,” from Old French letre “character, letter; missive, note,” in plural, “literature, writing, learning” (10c. , Modern French lettre), from Latin litterata (also litera) “letter of the alphabet,” also “an epistle, writing, document ; literature, great books; science, learning;” a word of uncertain origin.
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