Did you know that In English, the letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive; this sound is also transcribed by /k/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA. The letter K comes from the Greek letter (kappa), which was taken from the Semitic kap, the symbol for an open hand. This, in turn, was likely adapted by Semites who had lived in Egypt from the hieroglyph for "hand" representing D in the Egyptian word for hand, d-r-t. The Semites evidently assigned it the sound value /k/ instead, because their word for hand started with that sound. In modern-day English slang, the word "k" is used as a substitute for the abbreviation "O.K.", or "Okay." In International Morse code it is used to mean "over".

• AP Letter D Puzzle 1.0
  The Semitic letter Dƒlet may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient...

• AA Letter C Puzzle 1.0
  C for Cookie Monster

• SA Letter I Puzzle 1.0
  I (named i, plural ies) is the ninth letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. n Semitic, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative in Egyptian, but was reassigned to /j/ (as...

• AS Letter E Puzzle 1.0
  E is a vowel and the fifth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet

• RA Letter H Puzzle 1.0
  H (named aitch, plural aitches, or haitch) is the eighth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The Semitic letter most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (h). The form of the letter probably stood for a fence or posts. The Greek eta in the Archaic period still represented /h/ (later on it came to represent a long vowel,). In...

• AS Letter G Puzzle 1.0
  G (named gee) is the seventh letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet

• CA Letter F Puzzle 1.0
  The origin of f is the Semitic letter vƒv (or waw) that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/. Graphically, it originally probably depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph, such as that which...

• OJP Letter F Puzzle 1.0
  The origin of f is the Semitic letter vƒv (or waw) that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/