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Which language's first two letters named the alphabet?
Answer: Greek
Why: Alpha and beta trace back to the Phoenician letters aleph and beth, which originally represented an ox and a house.
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Which vowels trigger a soft pronunciation of the letter c?
Answer: e, i, or y
Why: Late Latin softened k to s before e and i, so civitas became city by way of French; Old English spelled king cyning; the k arrived after 1066.
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Which sound did gh originally make in night?
Answer: Velar fricative
Why: The historical gh was a harsh throat sound similar to the ch in Scottish loch before it went silent.
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How is the tiny dot over a lowercase I or J officially named?
Answer: Tittle
Why: Scribes added the tittle so an i would not vanish among neighbouring strokes; Turkish counts dotted and dotless i as two letters.
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What ending forms the plurals of hero, echo and potato?
Answer: es
Why: Hero, echo and potato take -es, but piano, photo and solo take only -s.
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What single mark combines ? and !?
Answer: Interrobang
Why: Advertising executive Martin Speckter created the interrobang in 1962 for rhetorical advertising copy.
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