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Several systems of transliteration to relate Chinese script to the 26-letter Roman alphabet have been used in the U.S., Egan said, but until recently Wade-Giles was the commonly accepted system...
...wedding breakfast with the exclamation, "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid!" Ireland is found "so melancholy, so full of the ghosts of feuds and famines, the clouds fly low, the trees sag under the incessant rain, and the very air seems charged and weighed down with a sense of grievance." An Alphabet of Literary Prejudice includes a list of names from the London phone book (among the more notable: Geoffrey Gush, Dr. Fredoon Famrose and Mr. Halfhead...
Gene splicing is a technique for recombining genetic material in which the tape is DNA, a molecule which codes in a four-letter alphabet for the various proteins which are vital for the, functioning of every cell. Researchers use a chemical scalpel--restriction enzymes--which attack DNA at specific sites, breaking it and exposing two "sticky" ends to which a new piece of DNA--a gene--can be attached...
That's putting it mildly. What can you say about a school where the first three letters of the alphabet they learn are "R.F.D."? And athletically, I don't know of any other institution in the country where a four-letter man is considered inferior...
Almost as soon as humans learned to write, they were devising ways to keep their messages secret. The Old Testament tells how the Prophet Jeremiah used a code word for Babylon. Julius Caesar often encrypted his messages by substituting letters three places farther on in the alphabet, i.e. D replaces A; E replaces B. But no matter how clever they may have been, the codes of antiquity-or of more recent times-rarely withstood the efforts of skilled code breakers. Mary Queen of Scots was ordered beheaded after Queen Elizabeth's chief spy intercepted and decoded Mary...