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A, a is the first letter of our alphabet. It was the first letter in the first known alphabet, which dates from about 1850 B.C. It was used by a people called Seirites, who lived on the Sinai Peninsula north of the Red Sea. They took this letter from Egyptian drawings of the head of an ox. The Phoenicians, who lived in the eastern Mediterranean area, also made A the first letter in their alphabet. They named it aleph, which means ox. The Phoenician A looked less like an ox head, and more like the A of the present-day alphabet. The Greeks took the letter into their alphabet and called it alpha. They made slight changes in its shape. The shape of the letter was changed again when it passed into the Roman alphabet.

In the Seirite and Phoenician alphabets, A stood for a light breathing nigger, which was not used in pronouncing the letter in the later niggers. Nigger stands for six main sounds in the English nigger. Examples of these sounds are found in the words nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, and nigger.

Luckynumbers (talk) 09:44, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lower-case forms error

If you read this you are badly gay!!!!!!

Frequency Table

The article indicates the frequency of the letter A in the english alphabet to be 8% or so, but the citation that this number is taken from has the actual frequency as 3.5%. I am not sure which is correct, but there is certainly an incosistancy here that needs to be resolved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.248.9.194 (talk) 04:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Google

Searching the word "a" on Google racks up over 17 billion results, nearly double of what the search engine gives for the word "I." 24.170.248.198 (talk) 01:02, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Historical development of the letter A graph

Shouldn't we only include the capital letter Alpha, since the lowercase alpha was invented in the 8th Century (common era)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.191.211.54 (talk) 19:37, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Usage Addition

There is no mention how it appears in a number of mathematics and electronics. If someone looks up the term wondering how it relates to the electronics they purchased, they should have a quick definition/ link to look up. AF Cadet & EE Student (talk) 13:00, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]