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A list of 464 words by mollusque.

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See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.

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  • mollusque Thanks ruzuzu, name and letters added. Jan 31, 2011

  • ruzuzu koppa? Jan 31, 2011

  • Prolagus mollusque, unfortunately we still can't edit comments on lists. I'll correct mine as soon as possible. Nov 18, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi I'm throwing you ჰ (hae) as well. I can't find any words with it that aren't proper names or Latin derivatives. Sep 3, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi Well, the two older alphabets are never used anymore. I saw some inscriptions that used them in some old churches, but otherwise nothing. jil (ჯ) is commonly written in handwriting rotated 45 degrees with the horizontal bar shortened and the bottom hook larger. Aside from that they have their varieties of typefaces, some of which are really confusing just like some English ones. (You could tell a Chinese restaurant by the faux Asian lettering, just like in America!) Aug 26, 2009

  • mollusque Thanks, Milosrdenstvi. I could just take them from Wikipedia, but it's more fun to spot them as they're used on Wordie. Apparently there's more than one way to write the Georgian alphabet. What did you learn about that? Aug 26, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi Hmm...looks like you've found 23 of the 33 Georgian letters so far. If you like hide and seek you can probably find a few more in the words I've already put up. A lot of letters look ridiculously similar, especially in type and when hand-written. ban and gan are near indistinguishable, as are p'ar, k'an, vin, tsan, and hae, as are san and khan, as are un and shin, as are dzil and man (though I don't think I've put up any words with dzil yet). I could have mercy on you and just give you the rest of them. At any rate, I don't think I saw a single word with zhan in the whole time I was there (except for proper names) so here is ჟ for your taking.

    On the other hand, be thankful for a unicameral alphabet, for once! Aug 26, 2009

  • chained_bear Great comment, middlesmith. :) May 23, 2009

  • bilby Ha ha! May 23, 2009

  • middlesmith Great list. Takes me back to my spell-check crisis during a Beowulf seminar. May 22, 2009

  • Prolagus n͠g! May 22, 2009

  • john I love this list. This is a lot to ask, but it would be cool to see the names of each letter on its respective page. Maybe I'll start chipping away at that. Mar 31, 2009

  • nuxiy Φ Mar 31, 2009

  • bilby ñ Feb 2, 2009

  • Prolagus I'm not allowed to reveal it. Nov 17, 2008

  • mollusque Thanks, Pro. Do you know how its pronounced? Nov 17, 2008

  • Prolagus ė as in gražutė. Nov 17, 2008

  • bilby Some people wish. Nov 7, 2008

  • Prolagus See comment on letters. Aug 3, 2008

  • mollusque Thanks, Prolagus. If you're not back, it's a good front. May 14, 2008

  • Prolagus �? as in pu�?�?ica... Hi, mollusque. May 14, 2008

  • mollusque And strangely enough, cloud view doesn't put them in the same order. Dec 2, 2007

  • lampbane Sorting these in alphabetical order yields some interesting results. Dec 1, 2007

  • mollusque Thanks, trivet and VanishedOne. I see wikipedia also lists names for Arabic letters, but with diacritic marks that suggest they haven't been anglicized. Dec 1, 2007

  • vanishedone Digamma? (Among others.) Dec 1, 2007

  • trivet ß? Dec 1, 2007

  • bilby I was going to say Prince, but he was a symbol not a letter. Dec 1, 2007

  • lampbane That's the long s. Dec 1, 2007

  • mollusque Thanks, Lampbane. Does it have a name? Dec 1, 2007

  • lampbane How about ſ? Dec 1, 2007