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    Bagellboi 2022-08-20 15:10:14 UTC

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    • I don’t think anyone found out what it means yet

      2022-08-20 15:10:46 UTC 1
      • Replying to: BagellboiI don't think anyone found out what it means yet

        E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is e (pronounced /ˈiː/); plural ees, Es or E’s. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.

        The Latin letter ‘E’ differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, ‘Ε’. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter hĂŞ, which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (hillul ‘jubilation’), and was most likely based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter represented /h/ (and /e/ in foreign words); in Greek, hê became the letter epsilon, used to represent /e/. The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage.

        2022-08-20 15:17:47 UTC 7
        • Replying to: scarlett [dormant account]E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter in

          tl;dr

          E is the fifth (number 5) letter in the English alphabet.

          In English it has two main sounds when it is spoken. Usually it is a short E (ĕ), but sometimes it is a long E (ē).

          One more thing in English is the so-called magic E, also known as the silent E. That is when a silent e at the end of a word makes the previous e long. Example: morpheme, which is pronounced as morphēm.

          2022-08-20 15:30:29 UTC 1