ISO Basic Latin Alphabet
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E 1 E For the mathematical constant, see e (mathematical constant). For other uses, see E (disambiguation). For technical reasons, "E#" redirects here. For E sharp, see E♯. ISO basic Latin alphabet Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz •• v •• t [1] • e Cursive script 'e' and capital 'E' E (named e /ˈiː/, plural ees)[2] is the fifth letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. E 2 History Egyptian Phoenician Etruscan Greek Roman/ hieroglyph He E Epsilon Cyrillic q’ E The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its derivational source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. In etymology, the Semitic hê has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (hillul 'jubilation'), and was probably 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 epsilon with the value /e/. Etruscans and Romans followed this usage. Although Middle English spelling used 'e' to represent long and short /e/, the Great Vowel Shift changed long /eː/ (as in 'me' or 'bee') to /iː/ while short /e/ (as in 'met' or 'bed') remained a mid vowel. No. Use in other languages In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /e/ represents the close-mid front unrounded vowel. In the orthography of many languages it represents either this or /ɛ/, or some variation (such as a nasalized version) of these sounds, often with diacritics (as: 〈e ê é è ë ē ĕ ě ẽ ė ẹ ę ẻ〉) to indicate contrasts. Less commonly, as in Saanich, E represents a mid-central vowel /ə/. Digraphs with 'e' are common to indicate diphthongs and monophthongs, such as 'ea' or 'ee' for /iː/ or /eɪ/ in English, 'ei' for /aɪ/ in German, and 'eu' for /ø/ in French or /ɔɪ/ in German. Most common letter 'E' is the most common (or highest-frequency) letter in the English alphabet (starting off the typographer's phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU) and several other European languages, which has implications in both cryptography and data compression. In the story The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, a character figures out a random character code by remembering that the most used letter in English is E. This makes it a hard and popular letter to use when writing lipograms. Ernest Vincent Wright's Gadsby (1939) is considered a "dreadful" novel, and that "at least part of Wright's narrative issues were caused by language limitations imposed by the lack of E."[3] Both Georges Perec's novel A Void (La Disparition) (1969) and its English translation by Gilbert Adair omit 'e' and are considered better works.[4] Related letters and other similar characters • Ε ε : Greek letter Epsilon • Ɛ ɛ : Latin letter Epsilon • Е е : Cyrillic letter Ye • Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye • Э э : Cyrillic letter E • ℮ : Estimated sign (used on prepackaged goods for sale within the European Union). • € : Euro sign. • ℯ : a mathematical constant. • ㅌ : a Hangul letter. • ∈ : in set theory, the symbol for set membership. • ℇ : the Euler–Mascheroni constant. E 3 Computing codes Character E e Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E LATIN SMALL LETTER E Encodings decimal hex decimal hex Unicode 69 U+0045 101 U+0065 UTF-8 69 45 101 65 Numeric character reference E E e e EBCDIC family 197 C5 133 85 ASCII 1 69 45 101 65 1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings. Other representations NATO phonetic Morse code Echo · Signal flag Flag semaphore Braille dots-15 In British Sign Language (BSL), the letter 'e' is signed by extending the index finger of the right hand touching the tip of index on the left hand, with all fingers of left hand open. References [1] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=Template:Latin_alphabet_sidebar& action=edit [2] "E" a letter Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (1993). Ees is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is rendered E's, Es, e's, or es. [3] Ross Eckler, Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Word Play. New York: St. Martin's Press (1996): 3 [4][4]Eckler (1996): 3. Perec's novel "was so well written that at least some reviewers never realized the existence of a letter constraint." 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