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D is the best letter in the alphabet because D is the first letter in Desiree and Desiree is the best person in the world =) |
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Desiree is amazing and fantastic and nice and smart and the queen of the world and a bunch of other good things. She is so awesome to. D is just great, you can even make a happy face from it =D <---see D is really cool!! And Desiree is even cooler! |
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D is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled dee (Template:PronEng), plural dees.[1]
History
| Egyptian hieroglyph door |
Proto-Semitic Dal, Daleth |
Phoenician Daleth |
Etruscan D |
Greek Delta |
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The Semitic letter Dâlet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek, and Latin, the letter was pronounced /d/; in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still retained (see letter B). Greek letter: Δ (capital) or δ (small) (Delta).[citation needed]
The minuscule (lower-case) form of D consists of a loop and a tall vertical stroke. It developed by gradual variations on the majuscule (capital) form. In handwriting, it was common to start the arc to the left of the vertical stroke, resulting in a serif at the top of the arc. This serif was extended while the rest of the letter was reduced, resulting in an angled stroke and loop. The angled stroke slowly developed into a vertical stroke.
Usage
In most languages using the Latin alphabet, the letter d represents the sound /d/, but in the Vietnamese alphabet it represents the sound /z/ in the north and /j/ in the south. At the end of German words, d represents /t/. In Fijian it stands for the prenasalized stop /nd/. In some languages where voiceless unaspirated stops contrast with voiceless aspirated stops, d represents an unaspirated /t/, while t represents an aspirated /tʰ/. Examples of such languages include Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo, and the Pinyin transliteration of Mandarin.
Representations
class="template-letter-box | In Unicode the capital D is codepoint U+0044 and the lower case d is U+0064.
The ASCII code for capital D is 68 and for lower case d is 100; or in binary 01000100 and 01100100, respectively.
The EBCDIC code for capital D is 196 and for lowercase d is 132.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "D" and "d" for upper and lower case, respectively.
In British Sign Language (BSL), the letter 'd' is represented as right hand held with index and thumb extended and slightly curved and tip of thumb and finger held against extended index of left hand.
See also
- Eth (Ð, ð)
- D with stroke (Đ, đ)
- Hooked D (Ɗ, ɗ)
- Д, д - De (Cyrillic)
- ∂
References
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (February 2007) |
- ^ "D" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "dee", op. cit.
D is the best letter in the alphabet because D is the first letter in Desiree and Desiree is the best person in the world =)
Desiree is amazing and fantastic and nice and smart and the queen of the world and a bunch of other good things. She is so awesome to. D is just great, you can even make a happy face from it =D <---see D is really cool!! And Desiree is even cooler!