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  1. Œ - Wikipedia

    A number of words written with œ were borrowed from French and from Latin into English, where the œ is now rarely written. Modern American English spelling usually substitutes œ with e, so diarrhœa …

  2. Slash (punctuation) - Wikipedia

    [3] but particularly the less vertical fraction slash. [4] The variant "oblique stroke" was increasingly shortened to "stroke", which became the common British name for the character, although printers …

  3. Linear Elamite - Wikipedia

    In 2020 Desset announced that he and an international team of researchers had completed a proposed decipherment of all known inscriptions in Linear Elamite, through deductive work based on the …

  4. Latin Extended-A - Wikipedia

    Latin Extended-A ... Latin Extended-A is a Unicode block and is the third block of the Unicode standard. It encodes Latin letters from the Latin ISO character sets other than Latin-1 (which is already …

  5. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film) - Wikipedia

    The film was adapted from the Stefan Zweig novella by screenwriter Howard Koch. There are divergences between the film and the book. The male protagonist in the book is simply referred to …

  6. Urdu alphabet - Wikipedia

    The Urdu alphabet has up to 39 [4] or 40 [5] distinct letters with no distinct letter cases and is typically written in the calligraphic Nastaʿlīq script, whereas Arabic is more commonly written in the Naskh style.

  7. Xi (letter) - Wikipedia

    In fluid dynamics, the Iribarren parameter. [3] The initial mass function in astronomy. [4] The correlation function in astronomy. [5] Spatial frequency; [6] also sometimes temporal frequency. A small …

  8. Encyclical - Wikipedia

    The term is now primarily associated with papal encyclicals from the Catholic Church for letters outlining the church's perspective on a topic, but is also used among Anglicans and the Eastern Orthodox …