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Sixth letter of the Latin alphabet
F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet and many modern alphabets influenced by it, including the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of all other modern western European languages. Its name in English is ef, and the plural is efs, when the letter is used as a noun. Wikipedia →
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Letter The sixth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
Symbol forte
Symbol a voiceless labiodental fricative.
Symbol [f]-fricated release of a plosive (e.g. [pᶠ], sometimes implying an affricate [p͜f]); [f]-coloring; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [f].
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đź“š Books worth reading
FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1800
Tender is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)Mary Shelley · 1818
Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die PsychoanalyseSigmund Freud · 1916
Caligula, suivi de Le malentenduAlbert Camus · 1900
Drei Abhandlungen zur SexualtheorieSigmund Freud · 1905
The Four LovesC. S. Lewis · 1960
Human physiologyStuart Ira Fox · 1984
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