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标题: I
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年12月27日18:36:44 星期五), 站内信件

I, ninth letter and third vowel in the English, Greek, and Roman alphabets.
It was called iota by the Greeks from its Semitic name, yodh, which means
and,� and was derived from the form of the character in the Egyptian hieratic
alphabet; this bore some resemblance to a hand with the thumb held separate.
The dot over the lowercase i came into general use in the 11th century. It was
originally an accent, used first to indicate vowel length and later to
distinguish ii from u and to mark the i in the combinations iu and ui.

"I," Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation.--

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