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Origins: eye (1)
Greek: omega
Frequency: 4th most frequent letter in English (2)
"O" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): " Has in English a long sound; as, drone, groan, slone, alone, cloke, broke, coal, droll; or short, got, knot, shot, prong, long. It is usually denoted long by a servile a subjoined; as, moan, or by e at the end of the syllable; as, bone." (3)
3 comments:
On one occasion, ornery octopi obtusely opined over optimistically oinking oryx.
Overtired Oliver ordered oodles of old, orange oddities.
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