u

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If you check, you will find that u is an equally unsavory letter and þ has completely disappeared as a letter. sic transit ....

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  1. noun The 21st letter of the modern English alphabet.
  2. noun Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter u.
  3. noun The 21st in a series.

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  • If you check, you will find that u is an equally unsavory letter and þ has completely disappeared as a letter. sic transit .... —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3
  • I was in uncharted territory, where words had no spelling: I wrote them in phonetics, even in my thesis, and invent their spellings here (u is always the vowel in look). —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
  • You have always been my fav. player and i l ♥ ve u forever! my whole room is u! my bedspread is that $50 blanket with ur face on it and mets sheet i have like a million posters of u on my wall and that i have like a section with a baseball signed by u nd jose reyes (which i got cause my uncle's friend's gizzy who works there got it!!) and a collage i made of u which is totally hott ♥, ur statue and ur dog tag necklace and ur bracelet! also huge congrats on ur 6 year 55 million dollar, 7th option contract-so when they open the new Shea u will be there! —  Wright Now
  • (256 Kword) (512 Kword) ------ u------ —  Sega Genesis Hardware Internals - Revised by Rick McTeague
  • Neither the ih nor the u is pronounced. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
 

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