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标 题: O
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年12月27日18:38:34 星期五), 站内信件
O, 15th letter and 4th vowel in the English alphabet and other alphabets of
Western Europe. It was originally a Phoenician character that stood for a
guttural breathing sound. The Greeks adopted this sign to represent omicron,
or the short o, and added a separate sign for the long o, omega. A single
letter, standing for both sounds, was incorporated into the Latin alphabet.
In English the letter o represents a long sound, as in the words old and
bone; and a short sound, as in hot and golf. The letter also stands for
the sounds heard in shorn, wolf, son, and do. The long o sound is indicated
by a variety of spellings, as in the words sew, dough, and foe.
"O," Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation.--
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