My Research Project On the Letter "A"

Wolftail The letter A is the first letter in the alphabet. The other letters are B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, Q, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z.

The letter A is similar to the greek letter Alpha. The upper-case version consists of two slanting sides of a triangle crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lower-case version, however, can be written in two forms: the single storey ɑ and the double storey a .

The earliest ancestor of the letter A is aleph, the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet. However, the true origin of Alephmay have been a pictogram of an ox head, influenced by Egyptian heiroglyphs.

The appearance of the letter A varies depending on the font used. For example, the letter A written in the font 'Bodoni Ornaments' will be written as A a upper-case and lower-case respectively.

In English orthography, the letter A currently represents six different vowel sounds. In most languages that use the latin alphabet (French, Italian, etc.) A denotes an open unrounded vowel. An exception is in a language called Saanich, native to Canada and the United States, in which A stands for a close-mid front unrounded vowel.

In algebra, the letter "A" along with the other letters at the beginning of the alphabet is used to represent known quantities, whereas the letters at the end of the alphabet (x, y, z,) are used to represent unknown quantities.

In Geometry, the capital letter "A" is used to denote lines, rays, segments, etc. A capital A is typically also used to represent an angle in a triangle.

In logic, A is used to signify the universal affirmative.

This is my research on the letter "A". Hopefully my grade for this will be an A, haha.

Comments

Wow. - Puga (1/10/2015)

I'll give you a B for that.
Just kidding! - PositronWildhawk (1/10/2015)