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The letter comes from Northern Semitic languages and its modern corollary is the Hebrew letter heth. It is spelled aitch, but the pronunciation of its name is. The letter H has a tricky spelling and pronunciation. Have you met these two extinct alphabet letters? Take a look! H – aitch Particularly in American slang, the spelled out name gee is used as an abbreviation for grand, in the sense of “thousand dollars.” With the exception of ef, the letter G is spelled like the other letters we have seen so far: gee. The spelled out name ef is occasionally used as an abbreviation for much saltier language. Like the letter B, dee originally had another name in the Phoenician alphabet: daleth. Like B and C, the letter D is spelled out with -ee: d-e-e. You might be picking up on a pattern here. The spelling cee might come in handy especially when writing about something “shaped or formed like the letter C,” as in she was curled in a cee, holding her pillow. It isn’t spelled with an S but a C: c-e-e. The spelling of the letter C might surprise you. Before it was bee, the letter B was part of the Phoenician alphabet and was known as beth. The plural is bees, like something you might find in a hive. The letter B is spelled just like the insect: b-e-e. If you’ve always minded your p’s and q’s and know your letters to a tee, then you should head over to our quiz on how the letters of the alphabet are spelled. □ Will our quiz on spelling spell victory for you?