Name of Lecturer: Prof. Penny Ur Presented by Summer Farraj

The letter P P is the 16 th letter of alphabet. It was also a letter in the alphabet used by the Semites, who once lived in Syria and Palestine. They named it pe, their word for mouth, and adapted an Egyptian hieroglyphic meaning mouth to represent it.

The letter P The Greeks took the letter for their alphabet and called it pi. When the Romans adopted the Greek alphabet, they developed the letter from that we use today.

The letter P P or p is about the 18 th most frequently used letter in books, newspapers, and other printed material in English. In chemistry, P stands for phosphorus ( פוספור \ זרחן ). P is used as an abbreviation for post, as in P.S. for postscript (( נ " ב.

P.S. PS: it means "post-scriptum". In Latin this means: "after the written". You add this when you want to add a information to a letter when you already signed it. But people unaware do it just for fun. P.S: "Post" always means "after" in scientific words. "Scriptum", as you guessed means "written".

The letter P Post comes from the Latin word for after, and it is also used in p.m., for afternoon. In bibliographies, p stands for page; in money, p stands for penny and for peso, a unit of currency in Spanish- speaking countries. In grammar, p represents past and participle. In music, it stands for piano, an Italian word that means softly.

The letter P Pronunciation: In English, a person pronounces p by closing the lips and the velum, or soft palate, and temporarily stopping the breath passage. The vocal cords are apart, and do not vibrate. The typical sound of p occurs in such words as pie and pen.

The letter P The combination ph is often sounded as f in such words as physics and photograph. P is silent in such words as pneumonia and raspberry (( פטל.

Development of the letter P

Special ways of expressing the letter P International Flag Code Semaphore code Braille Diagram of person holding 2 semaphore flags as letter P The Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write, and was the first digital form of writingblind

The letter P Morse code is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.textual A sign language (also signed language) is a language which, instead conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns (manual communication, body language) to convey meaning—combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to express speaker's thoughts.languagesoundmanual communicationbody language facial expressions

A.D. What does it mean? A.D. stands for Anno Domini, which is Latin for "year of our Lord," and it means the number of years since the time of Jesus Christ. That was 2000 years ago, so the date 500 A.D. means 1500 years ago.LatinJesus Christ

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