“ Graphic designers refer to the Italic and Roman forms as single-decker
a and double decker a respectively. In some of these, the serif that began the
right leg stroke developed into an arc, resulting in the
printed form, while in others it was dropped, resulting in the modern handwritten form.
In Greek handwriting, it was common to join the
left leg and horizontal stroke into a single loop,
as demonstrated by the uncial version shown. These variants, the Italic and Roman forms,
were derived from the Caroline Script version.
Click Here to see full-size tableThe sound for which the letter consistently stood in Greek and Latin was the open low back vowel, sometimes known in modern English as continental a.
A, letter that has stood at the head of the alphabet during the
whole of the period through which it can be traced historically.
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In both spoken and written English the choice of a1
or an 1 is determined by the initial sound of the word that follows.
Also, A is typically used as one of the letters to label
an angle in a triangle. It can sound like æ, in the International Phonetic
Alphabet, such as the word pad. The Greek alphabet was used by the Etruscans in northern Italy,
and the Romans later modified the Etruscan alphabet for their own language.
The Greeks later modified this letter and used it as their letter alpha.
The small letter, a, is used as a lowercase vowel. An exception is Saanich,
in which ⟨a⟩—and the glyph ⟨Á⟩—stands for
a close-mid front unrounded vowel /e/. ”