parataxis is what it is called when two letters are joined together.
parataxis is what it is called when two letters are joined together.
what is it called when two letters are joined together?
parataxis
the "oxford english dictionary", which does not yet include "digraphia", enters two "digraph" terms and "digraphic". first, the linguistic term "digraph" is defined as, "a group of two letters expressing a simple sound of speech". this meaning applies to both two letters representing a single speech sound in orthography (e.g., english "ng" representing the velar nasal ) and a single grapheme with two letters in typographical ligature (e.g., the old english latin alphabet letter æ). second, the graph theory term "digraph" (a portmanteau from directed graph) is defined as, "a graph in which each line has a direction associated with it; a finite, non-empty set of elements together with a set of ordered pairs of these elements." the two "digraph" terms were first recorded in 1788 and 1955, respectively. the "oed2" defines two "digraphic" meanings, "pertaining to or of the nature of a digraph" and "written in two different characters or alphabets." it gives their earliest examples in 1873 and 1880 (which was used meaning "digraphia"). isaac hollister hall, an american scholar of oriental studies, described an eteocypriot language publication as "bilingual (or digraphic, as both inscriptions are in the same language)." hall's article was antedated by demetrios pieridis's 1875 usage of "digraphic" instead of "bilingual" for an inscription written in both the greek alphabet and cypriot syllabary.
digraphia
in the second world war, vehicles of the british army had number plates such as codice_75 and those of the royal air force codice_76. since 1949, british military vehicle registration numbers are mostly either in the form of two digits, two letters, two digits (e.g. codice_77), or from 1995 onwards, two letters, two digits, two letters (for example, codice_78). until the mid-1980s, the central two letters signified the armed service, or the branch or category of vehicle. for example, chief of fleet support's staff car in 1983–85 was codice_79, and first sea lord's car codice_80 and second sea lord's codice_81, normal civilian plates replacing them when security required; and, in 1970, one of 's land rovers was codice_82 and 's ship's minibus was codice_83. royal air force vehicles had numbers such as codice_84, typically the first of the two letters being a, and the new-style raf plates, such as codice_85 and codice_86 on fire engines.
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