Timeline for R is the dog’s letter
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| Jun 5, 2013 at 21:28 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | A famous instance in which a character insults another character by equating him with a letter of the alphabet occurs in King Lear, Act II, Scene 2, where Kent says to Oswald (a feckless retainer of the hot Duke of Gloucester): "Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!" But I don't think that referring to z as "the whoreson letter" ever caught on. | |
| Jun 5, 2013 at 15:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 1, 2013 at 13:32 | answer | added | James Jenneman | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 31, 2013 at 18:00 | comment | added | Stan | I've saw a tutorial about the Latin alphabet (the dog letter R is at 2:29). But I can't ever make that sound :p | |
| May 31, 2013 at 12:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/340440206744363008 | ||
| May 31, 2013 at 12:03 | answer | added | Kris | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 31, 2013 at 11:41 | comment | added | Kris | @JonHanna Interesting but do not count. Mutton & Nuts are just first-letter codes. | |
| May 31, 2013 at 11:03 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2013 at 10:50 | history | edited | Matt E. Эллен | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 38 characters in body
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| May 31, 2013 at 10:46 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | Would printers jargon ("mutton" and "nuts" for M and N, along with some others like "bang" for !) count, or be too close in origin to ICAO and similar (there's been a variety of ICAO-like schemes) for your interests? | |
| May 31, 2013 at 10:23 | history | asked | user15851 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |