A

The erest for certain forebeir o the letter A is the Phoenician aleph (whiles scrievit 'aleph), the first letter o the Phoenicial alphabet^[2], whaurfrae the seemilar Greek, Etruscan an Roman letters. Aleph itsel mey be ultimately frae the Egyptian hieroglyphic o an ox's heid bi a Proto-Semitic^[3] seemplification.

Egyptian hieroglyph ox	Proto-Semitic A	Phoenician  aleph	Greek Alpha	Etruscan A	Roman A

• Α α : Greek letter Alpha
• А а : Cyrillic letter A
• Ɑ ɑ : Latin letter Alpha / Script A (or: A a)
• ɐ : a turned lawercase letter A, uised bi the Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet for the near-open central vowel
• ∀ : a turned caipital letter A, uised in predicate logic tae specify universal quantification ("for aw")
• ª : an ordinal indicator
• Æ æ : Latin letter Æ ligature

¹ An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.

• History o the Alphabet
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• • "A" in A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "A" (entry). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  • "A". The New Student's Reference Work. Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co. 1914.
  • "A". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.