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GeezerVison is showing en.wikipedia.org — E - Wikipedia  This article is about the Latin letter. For the similar Cyrillic letter, see Ҽ. For the number, see e (mathematical constant). For other uses of the symbol e or E, see E (disambiguation).
For technical reasons, "E#" and ":E" redirect here. For E sharp, see E♯. For the emoticon, see List of emoticons.
E (minuscule: e) is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet as well as the second vowel in the vowel sequence of AEIOU. It is used in the modern English alphabet and is also found in the alphabets of many European and some Asian languages. Its name in English is e (pronounced /ˈiː/ ⓘ); plural es, Es, or E's.[1] NameIn English, the name of the letter is the "long E" sound, pronounced /ˈiː/. In most other languages, its name matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables.  History
The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter hê, which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (hillul, 'jubilation'), and was most likely based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter represented /h/ (and /e/ in foreign words); in Greek, hê became the letter epsilon, used to represent /e/. The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage. Use in writing systems
EnglishAlthough Middle English spelling used ⟨e⟩ to represent long and short /e/, the Great Vowel Shift changed long /eː/ (as in me or bee) to /iː/ while short /ɛ/ (as in met or bed) remained a mid vowel. In unstressed syllables, this letter is usually pronounced either as /ɪ/ or /ə/. In other cases, the letter is silent, generally at the end of words like queue. Other languagesIn the orthography of many languages, it represents either [e], [e̞], [ɛ], or some variation (such as a nasalized version) of these sounds, often with diacritics (as: ⟨e ê é è ë ē ĕ ě ẽ ė ẹ ę ẻ⟩) to indicate contrasts. Less commonly, as in French, German, or Saanich, ⟨e⟩ represents a mid-central vowel /ə/. Digraphs with ⟨e⟩ are common to indicate either diphthongs or monophthongs, such as ⟨ea⟩ or ⟨ee⟩ for /iː/ or /eɪ/ in English, ⟨ei⟩ for /aɪ/ in German, and ⟨eu⟩ for /ø/ in French or /ɔɪ/ in German. Other systemsThe International Phonetic Alphabet uses ⟨e⟩ for the close-mid front unrounded vowel or the mid front unrounded vowel. FrequencyE is the most common (or highest-frequency) letter in the English language alphabet and several other European languages,[2] which has implications in both cryptography and data compression. This makes it a harder letter to use when writing lipograms. Other usesMain article: E (disambiguation)
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In British Sign Language (BSL), the letter 'e' is signed by extending the index finger of the right hand touching the tip of index on the left hand, with all fingers of left hand open. See also
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