All Be Your Sand

The Louds of the Quantum Ballet Make for the Brilliance of the sun on the Moon of A howl,
in the Breeze of Mind the counter kinds to bounce the line to Talk a travel on the Sane,
touch the Horse to blanket The fire on the flame that burns Lightning to Thunder that dare!!

Baked Fired the Eggs of the Salmon Run to the river banking Read,
cobble Stones touch the Heavy on the Lake a Forged,
to Creek that Niagara inside My Head,
Owe Boy!!

That dance of the Merry like this Waltz is the Fritz of the Come On a fair,
to dance the Elephant on the Range of talk blasting Echoed,
sky rounds with the Rain in the sound at branches off the ground,
stirred Supper tasked lunched to the Dinner on the groove of the seldom Herd of The Blues!!

To the missing of a dear and Old Friend dg,

the Man in the mystery with a Hand to gentle my brain with hugs of length,

an engagement from the youth of my certain tacking Up for the reason on the Wisdom to shoe.

In blades of the Turmoil the Prized was the show of the guitar on the Gibson loving a player,

to the Ages in the Fact as A Thousand Year traced my rival to be the Beamer of shoulder Sails,

the billowing Winds to the Tags at the Worlds finder Freezed,

trains to the Rails of Time in the Caliber 'till the lat.

The saddle of the Straps on the stirrups riding the Storms of Man Signed a spring to the Quill,

in written the store of the Company laugh as that is Has the World on an Ancient Tale spin,

raptors on the Mast a basket to Shallows the rocks and the Shards of the stacked,

strong Arms that have Cave to the field of Production hath only the faddle for the Tassel steam!!

A Chord to the singer in the sheets of the balance as the ink in the drops of Truth hath a Fast,

in dialect on the language of Original placing Plato before the religions that stoop drag,

anchors a slate to the Thought of the Stead that barns trust.

Stable to the Muck is as the ditch is to the Feed,

in the porcupine A Cactus is by way the thorn to tackle the Needle,

in the sleigh of the Sands it is with the drifts,

to smooth the flaccid plundery taking a rib snapping treating the Crime,

to death of the banks on the Western scour of the Rise in and On the lathe,

a shingle making the Roof for the Fiddler to recite the Song of the Tradition,

what a gallop at the days of plunder Sharking Hi to spell the absolute as the Hoot Knows!!

Dial the taste to the Swall on the Pan of the riddle in the brow of the glycerin to String,

pour Isn't the mud it is the Singing of the last to the First on the slat,

slice the Apple to talk a Mile a Garden for the Swim of the drink,

bite to the Simple parking Out as the fence is the key,

think with the gate to Familiar the Tomb,

the tooth to the lay.

Insidious throws to the Ale in beneath the belly of the boughts,

on the leg of The Horse it is a wrap,

cotton to the Sake and the Polo placed a Make,

speaking Fort to a ankle & An itch,

a swash buckler that Boards to the Ship on the plank,

yet in the Say is the Caller of the our on the Minuet of a Came!!

Shuttering lyrics to the thimble of the Piano deeming The Bench to a Clock,

looping the Infinitive to seeing the Planned,

sparking the Ignition to Rockets on the foundation of the Scribe to the grace,

oh for the Favor is Only the State of a few in the Sigh of Greats!!

To be known by Way of the Tell in this Hand I write Aye Nana,

to my wonder of a Grandfather the Patience, the Eyes, a Smile in a blazed,

firing the cheek to that crooked smile I wore,
 so hated was I but in that I learned,

the Fashion of the Crane to special the Event with the most Incredible lark,

a memory of Clues from being found to scraps of Meet that engaged the better bets of Me.

A Riddle Inch Letters Sleeved

Funny oasis is a funny chortle for The See as that is the Awkward only for the Green,

in Inch by Mile to Kilometers dialed Operator Nine Eleven quoted born A while,

to grass that Crush with known to done the Simple is task Simple Act Kept,

to minus a Wish bone for the Time is to say that I was not Sincere in The Earnest of the Tone,

yet on the Wisdom no Answer Machine just is the wheel of the Magnetic in bring.

Former of the Tank is reality of blows from back to the Basic in the laid on the Knows,

to taste a Different perfume to Noise the Skunk is only At the Cat of the Hat in a Punch,

taken lightly the Horseman by the Clay is in the Global Arena It's a Tree,

barf for the Crowd too joke for the Stile but the providence Is more Likely just a stroke.

In that it is The Service of the Silver & The Spoon,

dust on the jacket Leather for the Broom,

belts to the Buckled fitting to the Size,

counting Numbers on the Jobs that Chap is All butt Knock.

Ding Dong the sit is On the Application done to Had jumped the Hope that was all but Sad,

in honor of the Twin Flame pardon on the Flax,

shiny is the Eyes of live to sparkle Handel plaque.

A sort of Owe be Won in Any loud to Thank the Gorgeous Sun, ,

the Moon in bay A howling stayed to Thank the Every One,

this is the Days of Many say to Loan the process Paves,

once Upon the Story love be Lanes to brighter Craved!!

Rather on the dungeon Song the Polish and the Look,

metro with the Dire Straights and lecture with a Hook,

in process is the discipline to Grateful hours Minutes,

in Seconds on the found a stab The Blunt is With a Took.

Yet on the bother of My Brain the mind is in a Sunder,

for as the Composition sings so does the Sheets in Wonder,

set to prowess for the bait the sync on the Waters,

Falls of Origin in the Plate is Philosophical Bumper.

Like Cycles on the Cars in brakes to light the signal Turnings,

bikes that spoke to the gear in the grease of learnings,

a puncture Whole to know the Toll and cart The work in Thunder,

storms are left to Tight Ends & that is Made salts Fun stirred.

Not I on the Problem of the Add to Two or deed,

that Karmic Debt in Horse of Said is brand of New to Tons,

a heard to Ear the plus in Verb an Expression spelling Noun`d,

is nothing but a horse without the names that mark the bummer.

Talk a lot to lets See breakfast in America,

set_at _zero traveled well leaving tranquil younger,

my growth to Men in Out About is to bet the gamble bell,

rings forth Wit to joke the skip & screw down to Whats the junker!!

So happily I accept that life is really basic,

to know that from the beginning rust is division Of not skill,

to tack the barn to Stable start my Mind in Thought did wonder,

should the Halt beget the Fret would Hugs be brought or Paid for!!

In the Answer on the Sky the Clouds do Write the pictures,

dragons Lions sharks And birds to Sing my Life to base,

from no Expectations the sentence Framed a delight to fancy pleasant,

for even in the throws of down I find that blanket Quilted sound. 

A Gentle Mans Breezed

Put to The forth of the once in a leap is the certain attainable aspect of Fleet,

an Up towards the Ancient for the From the Sees to aspect of Tail a Comb,

brush with a box on the Paints in the room twice in the Elephant of a grew`m,

as Rubics Cube is the Blocks of the Stream to counter of belly the fountain of Kings!!

Crowned bye the Furrow of brains in the lope to Canter a gallop brings Hand,

ask Not of the Section of Cross to the Show former the Stage as Blunt in a Pole,

a freeze Flame to Melt is the Icy of belt Shouts to the Sky like a barren in Clyde!!

Shell Beach with the Movie to the House of the Stagger as the banks are the decks to the Rubber,

bounce a small with a Bough for the Climb,

Know Noise is the Telly on the Toll of Subbed Lime!!

Squeeze to The Barrel of Monkeys on Band for As the Blunt is seams Predisposed,

further to Problem Attic to Throws a Yak for the Work in the harness`d of Posed,

to pat Sea of laughter the Handles Mess Sigh Uh an Opener to learning the Value had Turned,

long A Go to the board of Method treat Prose feeding the Swan to the Goose over dun!!

Pink paddle Ponies to see through all the dismal Making the Massive Up set to rose,

in thorny of last to the Hop of the Fast plates tell The Wash that the River is daft,

to creek it on Over to the factor of Cream shall the dance be of Ribbon tie Up the big Scene,

skip for the Record cork on C.D. discipline is the Greatest of Means!!

Try Outs to At Bouts or is the the Dress,

turkey for dinner just like a Jest,

card the Tear Oh a Page on the Score Intro to Jet stow an Arrow Plains Core,

to be Clear with the Sigh hence a Technical spinach,

clams are the grit in the Sand of the send Which of a Bakers Thirteen!!

Scrabble that with the Bubble of air Waves to the Oceanus of the Roars are the Fair,

circus to Solve Vent with Volcanic in leaned Thanks for the Fish the Dolphin are Queen`d,

with love and the Hugs fo the Newspaper Print at Tec. in the Neats its Christmas 'A' Cheer!!

To for the blubber Three from the buzz for to Make merry the laughter at Thug,

count to the Fee of Fi Fiddle it drum,

looks like A Horse and bumped to the Strum,

of Pick a pie Lot to favored by Types gather the Frost its an Ice is by Sock!!

Peter piper Played a lifer on The whistle Lands,

in the training of the Ka Boost it is More over the Under of Stand,

tried & True to honest of grew with a bit of taste to Addition the Grace`d,

a Very consider to Ever in Hither is Hence the Hands of the Clock off that sam!!

A Mare it Caw to draw the Saw is digits on the Pram,

perkulate with coffee and be that Mug of fan,

after BEfore the Ever is From to cater the business of the Nobody chore,

in the Service of Theme to a Dancer by Reams books of the Chapter are lovely inn Bing!!

The Lite Bulb

The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
  But the good ones I've seen
  So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

Unknown Origin

This limerick goes in reverse
  Unless I'm remiss
  The neat thing is this:
If you start from the bottom-most verse
This limerick's not any worse.

Web Cartoonist Zach Weiner, 

author of SMBC-Comics, 

wrote a reversed limerick that makes sense read top-to-bottom, 

and vice versa.

anti~limericks

There was a Song man of A Pan
Whose limericks never would scan.
  When asked why this was,
  He replied "It's because
I always try to fit as many syllables into the last line as ever I possibly can."

Unknown Origin

Sail Compass Solve Áine

Those Colossal a prose to the Asked & Answering is the Theses of the Procreative Balance,

once Rein in the collective Correlative to the sku Its A slashed of the Bee to the Seat of Anchored,

structure thorough hath Bound the book to the Reaming of the seams at Sarge app. Lied,

to swipe The Eraser with Pen Sill lid to touch the Blink in the blind of the Third 4th through.

Carriage foot Man with At`s Tack to saddle the deplore rains the Brain to the In Tell lect. of shag,

carpet Corners of that to the Task of Grapple is in Deed to branch tea Carrot to pulse,

a Heart brake Greats talk lugged Arms boxing the Day of huge to byte the Thigh,

likened to screen the inevitable blare with the Loud of Inkleans stipulation of Thelwell Scribe!!

King Normans rocking Horse to bit Up a Unbridled ponies Lovable with Cartoon claim,

jumps with Life preserve`verb to riding the shallows off turned with the 5th Tin clocks,

hands Girth with bill lets to Leather a Gate talk from basic Barn to stable Walk as The parkers!!

Charge the Lance A lots with Wide ayes making Ready a gave to Receipt of the message Read leaf,

scrubbing the base of the Tale ot brush the Noun as the Hinge is bolt Action to mountains Plat,

gallop the Tums road on the Runs chance`ing the Opoly to bring that How`er to bright faults.

Strange spanned to score the Sport of James Blunt as A Trust yet on the Same it is the difference,

in A Mount to brought the Singer hath divided the Tron to rig a Beam as the Dead End of a punt,

Pull to the Boats that lake with a Caster fishing Line delivery ankles Only hook bait.

Friendly fire is the stand Of the often too Technical flounder flopping the dry beach Sands,

basket to Webster in the Cob of the Freckles granted the log as the Thought with A Bobbie,

in gunnery of H`Our more the barrinet spook Took to tremble A Cow,

tow Trailer picked a stitch to Find that the Truck is a Tractor Pole!!

Inn the Fell origin of the I land a Crepe it is the double back of Cheek in the kiss on the Slacker,

piano band Trumpet sand is Print worthy fort to the straight of the Narrows that Ship,

to lanes on the Mind a World in the signed Has bent to the Breadth to accommodate the Grass!!

Wound to bale Twine with wire is the More`s Code of conduit to Strike Ignite as the floor in,

tooth To nail, Stomach spell Digest, reader banks McGuffy with a due Dirty mice`d,

scrap with the Knight on the Back to Basic a Count than the Dracula will cycle the Staff,

to negate the Happening to Just coincidence is the fortune of the Crumble on the cookie Doe!!

Deer Sleeve to Antler lead this the Tree of My Life for in the Forest of the grove it is the Sail,

long on list to the Skies in the mist Fog is cheerly a spark of the Tight formerly The Spins,

doll Fen to 'Swell' that Musical Waltz to sing a little Song on the Section of the Storm,

to Stars in the Grain as the Salts of the Fame I^on Foundation eliminating the bother by Stoolie.

Honest with duty to deal the Cope is as the Jack is the Rabbit on the Antelope,

planes in the Traveling sheep Shepards row is sync with the Sorrow letting it Go,

Now that Warner Brothers correlated Games Think to the product & bike on the Gear,

fork The Operator to the Property Loads paper The Money & coin on the so,

creative Design braking Time in the ages for Grant understanding Saves not to Sloat,

rather the Map in its Guide I.D. with a Side comprehension for the Dump in Canning!!

To dear James Blunt lead that tangle of Scrappy don't be Bitter as Sweetly is dish`d,

sat A light communication drank in the Fulled to being the writer as the known to the smash,

for on the place to the Thing in the graph Why's are not the question for the Horse and the dash,

spooking is As key to the Lumber at shadows Tennis elbow inch Racket to snow the foe loathe.

A good Hard thanks as Twin Flames did Fire Up with admission to just be shot Told,

in the Price of the Learn I spake to the Hub but on the Spoke the Wheel is cog,

to Make Good on that is Plato on Fact but Now the World will Never exact,

therefore Good by is the Gate of Hell^Owes to Think In The Tank was a Now purpose Full post!!

Kind of certain to Switch in the Knows treating the B.D. with the discipline Chose,

to the latter day Clay that build with deep Say James Blunt such to Thanks you're The bar Piano clout,

touch the Classic call for this is Your speech Wash on the Clothes are skins To the Streets,

an Alley for bunched Banana' and Muds enjoying the Nature of the beets and the Could`s,

Chance on the Card to the color of Woulds makes the Monopoly the Chess of the Hoods!!

Spank to the Lamp lit for all are in Life savers Fruit Loops with Captain Crunch in the Hoots,

cheerio Owes on The Milk with burr Bun in Showed to cubicle Ice that tray of the flows`d,

lasting to bring The thanks in the Sane its been Such a Wonder of the Won Hit Inn Vein!!

Know Batteries Required With Side^Winders

An Odd a See in the Movie Reel of the Real Mind to the dream of just Minutes A Go,

to tend in Seas to dime the drop lets say that the Screen was Not silver but rather long,

a entire Sentence in the found from the base of the Middle to the easily Scene,

a ticket to the Flounder that bask Kit of phish Answer with Shutters for the Que!!

'The Wind to the Breathe Pane' is in the Inch Miles of the K la Monitor of Computation,

calculate with The Roll to slip Shingles with Love from Mystery to personal Identification,

channel on the Emergence of the Face Book to the Y trip for the Theater sole Seed,

courting the Base to The Guitar of the Ukulele for size`ing Supper with the Condor skip!!

A Corner Market wall street Singing the Some Kind of Trouble tagged Hart of gold,

invest A Gate to the shivers that Goose to the Bed Lambs provision to the Turing class,

teach What the bee Hold is a Taught^See of the Watch on the Cork of the Wines VineYard,

previously pardons the Excuse greed a Butt tan for the Read band as the Flower a Skunk!!

Cart^Tuned to Metro^Domes for the While out to Scrub a Mishmosh of the blender,

Potatoes & Carrots boiling waters to Kettle steam with The Tea Party lard.

Phast to the farmer on the Digest read durs to Duh the stink Bomb with Yell^lo Cake,

this Numbing sleeper to the Feat walk journal of a Dye a Reed as the Marsh^All beware,

warning that thee branch of sub^Division with a Tad bit of boners on the lug!!

Tub Moon at spoon Full of sweets Cubed sugar ore Salt to the dry Desert retreats,

that Plunger product at the Resort to casual locked At pardon the Fraction as the bagged,

alter Robes to the Pin the bale on the Dawn key to Horror Rise Inn with a bay Chore`d,

copy Claps on chap Sure often the bends once Known as the Underwater bell Thrown!!

Boats to Vikings Fire too Ice Waist two deck stirred the Simple Complex!!

Discorporate

Clique On click Off cluck to the Lather on the Brow of Brim Fires Camped,

at the stones of the throw ar round digits clown to Make Up what the Made will show to Classified,

each a Spank to anchors Ramp plank Ton times with Calendar rhymes,

trans Singer with beulah driven Highway Sick Tee Five`d,

that Cadillac Ranch in Texas slant the Oil rigged to slug,

pumpers on the Unexplained takes the Ross Wells temper Skill.

Shall We dance the Malt ba Till duh,

sheep Beaches with the print of Sands,

terrific segway with a taste of Tale all in the Hour of the Humble grail!!

Drink Mi said the Singer Freeze,

the Ices of the timber leads,

stick and Stiff upper lipped to Hare Owe of the Jack a Lope!!

Traveling the Sup. Port of the pant along trousers, 

Thrift Handy to the break from Garage,

step to the ankle finding dandy,

a horse of Many coats to Rain bows Sloop!!

Several Hundred Thousand now at the back Too basic crowd,

first its lift to 2nd for give & third make Shift to gere's in rib,

a Pop goes the Wii Saul to lumber the sleep triple the A to curb oft the Bit,

not a Shoe, not A Plane, not a Roast nor a Flee,

no, just the Principle of the In Vest meant of Whom can Roll the Role`rs to Train!!

Staged to a deck on the Porch 21 tacking to the Ever sleeve 27th fuddle,

down to the Hotel California with Clarity Meal,

dinner Out in the Fount of an Ink bell tracers on the Stilts of jiminy crickets define of Gum Bough!!

Win Won Is Two Times The Power Slot

Blair the Tony a Ward of the den^et^Sun of breakfast at that Egg,

in boil to the brew of the Coffee in the beam of the Electric plug of Value,

to measure Scoop of round the Boot a task at the Grape,

Vine to line in the Barb of Wires on the Taunt tongue of the Yolk jay Sing,

Benny Haw knaw the Trap oath grass A snare to blade the Flavor,

toe Back co. for the reverse grains in the Mill a Cent to Plains,

buff A lo that field Row is pluck the Feather for the stow,

in Plant to the Radio an An Ten Nigh that bounces Brain!!

Cross Section bubbles letter Light the Advertisement Wise Entertain Mint twiced,

channel Gravel pebble Blake the Mechanics hour Truck Duct,

tapes that View with camera Lens the blinking of the Eyes that lunge,

a horse on Pen to tail Swish change directions for the Hitch!!

Pull the p[in Tale of the Donkey in the Inking of Tattoo,

spank the Monkey made thy Flow quest Shuns balance to the New,

in bearings of the Grift ore Clancy drinking Course to Map Other fan,

chance to Game the chess Check curr Per valance on the Blinding lure`d!!

Swing to Loop the Cocktail Hour five Owe clock turn digits Nailed,

hammer Hums with Whistle soup Cucumbers sink the Hexol brands,

under Over to Teacup raised Pinky fire on the days,

ladle loft a bench in Croft clever Chores to coals of lyre!!

Harp say Chord with Sheets oft band dancing Feel the grand Pie lands,

in slice of Meet to spoke of Feat the Whell goes sounds to circle Sweep!!

Brush to swail the poe teak Oaks on ribbon style with Yellow lance,

surplus with Nana door at the Wind doe anchor Plans,

guide the Voice of ready choice`d Paper steadies bakers Lamp,

light the Bulb that lilac Low in the ground of Inch to snow,

now that Melt is Waters fall to signal that Niagara Squall.

Hoover dam the auto shift to cave that more in tubs of grits,

sands thy filter touch the Silt gold to Tumble Parking source,

in drive to by Ways from the said as The Canyon Grands the Fed,

firth is Flown with peculiar Farm as the Plough so is the storm.

Pig Tales

Mutual Intelligibility

The Hour of the Numbers chapter turn The Page is on the verse of the stern deer,

as the Skunk said to the Prior of the Paints of And Of the snail a tailor of order,

the Brush for the bottle is a bush in the Sort to A Parking Lot entry do you ever,

on the Raise of the Flag to the Maypole of scene a broader in the Tied of ribbonry!!

Sync shells to the grit base on the Sands of the Glass table brought A look sea,

the thick of a Magnification to the landing of the Sides board on the Wheel,

spoke by Spoke that turn stile of the Organ in the Hall way Entry to The Pumping,

on the Pole of the plugs with a Stature of the Sport to fireplace building that Spree!!

Gosh in the lumber of the Park to the Trees as the thimble is of Thread so is the deed,

a hammer Chisel maul to split the Would at sleep for on the Clock it's Six dialed,

at the Twelve in the Speak of the slip of the Feat a 'Dark City' hollers it's Raisin`,

the brights are on the Ocean us`d And that is the treat of the Rice of Row knee.

To grapple with Detail on the sentence of the score is to Miss the Tablet of the lead,

as to that is the Front Porch pictures on the Bend stairs for the Mail & breakfast at the Stint,

coffee in the Kitchen a Blender for the Scrubs do the Elbows watching make ready for the Crust,

apple on the Baker the sugar on the crumble Is ever the taught be flour or is it on the Rust!!

Drink the Water after the Nails it is Iron,

special on the Nower is the gift of Purpose`d shrugged,

in shun tint to Shades of the late eyes are the blinking dones is for the shake,

Bill's Place on the service a Koi Pond in the Inch,

meals spoon the Flavor and Tee is for the booth!!

Heavy inside day shores to coming sit the Coot,

a Pigeon corking Wire is the evident at Tooth,

to cavity this Snake purse is yet again the Peel,

for as the Magazine did so did the Sentry mile!!

Garden plots to touch the Gong in Rose to thistle stood,

barking at the Finch is Whistle to the Nude,

a nylon on the pour spouts mound is Lake Avenue,

a district for the Sun set is beaches that kill Saved.

Born to run in the lights of the Sky on the bearings of the Universal Soar,

to grasp the Human at the brought on a Hug towards the Infinity of Joe,

as that is the Favor of the Value to the Missed and the Loved in this Hymn,

Marching at the speed of the desire to each is the best of the Fire!!

Great to better that blast for the Edge is the Fantastic Views of this as That Morsel,

in the form of body on the Written I state that Simplicity is the most Complex puzzle Found and Understood!!

Take that second of the Mars to the Letter of the Domino on that it is the Ice,

in a cutting ledger of the Clyde on the Nana of the Aim,

to barn the stacks at the library of the Minds carriage of Shoulders to harbor lasting Lungs!!

Trip not on the branch for the Scared hour of Cowards is the Links that scab to Heel,

on the said in the stun Aztec to Incan for the Mayan it is the Sounds,

a breast station to Identification of the Starlights twinkle on the Calendar rare`d,

former tot he Task of the Grands basic Piano a Tarzan fate to the lather in the Peoples romped.

Dedication to the Thought of the faults as the Earth on shakers & brakers,

burning Engines fires Camps and the Toilet trees,

from the Center to the sigh It Is the Asset on the echo of the Sphere,

globe Around to Circle trace that Time is not the End,

it is the Factor on the Chaos of Use to usage of Energy.

For as work is Tally to the minute seam,

so is the Rise on the West to park the East,

at the Song of the South to shout North,

an At las to grit of the Norse on the Mountains of the Crane,

a Crow to the A^Patch^E and that is the fountain of the Horse on the Handprinted Ass,

a burrow of the Donkey on the Mule of stigmata to Arcadian Verse,

product Revolution with a Watch on the Apple,

A Hell of a Hook!!

ISO Basic Latin Alpha Bet

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) basic Latin-script alphabet consists of the following 26 letters:

Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters)

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

By the 1960s it became apparent to the computer and telecommunications industries in the First World that a non-proprietary method of encoding characters was needed. TheInternational Organization for Standardization (ISO) encapsulated the Latin script in their (ISO/IEC 646) 7-bit character-encoding standard. To achieve widespread acceptance, this encapsulation was based on popular usage. The standard was based on the already published American Standard Code for Information Interchange, better known as ASCII, which included in the character set the 26 × 2 letters of the English alphabet. Later standards issued by the ISO, for example ISO/IEC 8859 (8-bit character encoding) andISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode Latin), have continued to define the 26 × 2 letters of the English alphabet as the basic Latin script with extensions to handle other letters in other languages.

Contents

 

• 1 Representation
• 2 Usage
• 3 Alphabets containing exactly the same letters
• 4 See also
• 5 References

Representation

Hindu-Arabic numerals and letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet on a typical 16-segment display.

In ASCII the letters belong to the printable characters and in Unicode since version 1.0 they belong to the block "C0 Controls and Basic Latin". In both cases, as well as in ISO/IEC 646, ISO/IEC 8859 and ISO/IEC 10646 they are occupying the positions in hexadecimal notation 41 to 5A for uppercase and 61 to 7A for lowercase.

Not case sensitive, all letters have code words in the ICAO spelling alphabet and can be represented with Morse code.

Usage

All of the lowercase letters are used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). In X-SAMPA and SAMPA these letters have the same sound value as in IPA. In Kirshenbaum they have the same value except for the letter r.

Alphabets containing exactly the same letters

This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (March 2013)

The below list only contains alphabets that do not contain:

• letters with diacritical marks that constitute distinct letters.
• multigraphs that constitute distinct letters.

alphabet	diacritic	multigraphs (not constituting distinct letters)	ligatures
Afrikaans alphabet	á, é, è, ê, ë, í, î, ï, ó, ô,ú, û, ý
Catalan alphabet	à, é, è, í, ï, ó, ò, ú, ü, ç
Dutch alphabet[dubious – discuss]	ä, é, è, ë, ï, ö, ü	The digraph ⟨ij⟩ is sometimes considered to be a separate letter. When that is the case, it usually replaces or is intermixed with ⟨y⟩.
English alphabet	-none-	sh, ch, ea, ou, th, ph, ng, zh	æ, œ
French alphabet[citation needed]	à, â, ç, é, è, ê, ë, î, ï, ô,ù, û, ü, ÿ	⟨ai⟩, ⟨au⟩, ⟨ei⟩, ⟨eu⟩, ⟨oi⟩, ⟨ou⟩, ⟨eau⟩, ⟨ch⟩, ⟨ph⟩, ⟨gn⟩, ⟨an⟩, ⟨am⟩, ⟨en⟩, ⟨em⟩, ⟨in⟩, ⟨im⟩, ⟨on⟩, ⟨om⟩, ⟨un⟩, ⟨um⟩, ⟨yn⟩, ⟨ym⟩, ⟨ain⟩, ⟨aim⟩, ⟨ein⟩, ⟨oin⟩, ⟨aî⟩, ⟨eî⟩	æ, œ
German alphabet[citation needed]	ä, ö, ü	⟨sch⟩, ⟨qu⟩, ⟨ch⟩, ⟨ph⟩, ⟨ng⟩, ⟨ie⟩, ⟨ck⟩, ⟨ei⟩, ⟨eu⟩, ⟨äu⟩	ß
Ido alphabet	-none-	⟨qu⟩, ⟨ch⟩, ⟨sh⟩	-none-
Indonesian alphabet	-none-	⟨kh⟩, ⟨ng⟩, ⟨ny⟩, ⟨sy⟩
Interglossa alphabet	-none-
Interlingua alphabet	-none-	⟨qu⟩	-none-
Luxembourgish alphabet	ä, é, ë
Malay alphabet	-none-	⟨kh⟩, ⟨ng⟩, ⟨ny⟩, ⟨sy⟩	-none-
Occidental alphabet	-none-
Portuguese alphabet	ã, õ, á, é, í, ó, ú, â, ê,ô, à, ç	⟨ch⟩, ⟨lh⟩, ⟨nh⟩, ⟨rr⟩, ⟨ss⟩, ⟨am⟩, ⟨em⟩, ⟨im⟩, ⟨om⟩, ⟨um⟩, ⟨ãe⟩, ⟨ão⟩, ⟨õe⟩	-none-

English is the only major modern European language requiring no diacritics for native words (although a diaeresis is used by some publishers in words such as "coöperation").

Note for Portuguese: k, w and y were part of the alphabet until several spelling reforms during the 20th century, the aim of which was to change the etymological Portuguese spelling into an easier phonetic spelling. These letters were replaced by other letters having the same sound: thus psychologia became psicologia, kioske became quiosque,martyr became mártir, etc. Nowadays k, w, and y are only found in foreign words and their derived terms and in scientific abbreviations (e.g. km, byronismo). These letters are considered part of the alphabet again following the 1990 Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement, which came into effect on January 1, 2009, in Brazil. See Reforms of Portuguese orthography.

[] v t e The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 List of letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode

See also

• Hebrew alphabet
• Greek alphabet
• Latin-script alphabet
• Windows code pages