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ConTextos is an educational NGO established in El Salvador and the US. The organization offers a teacher training program, school libraries, and a tablet -based writing program. The organization, founded by students at Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2009, was originally named Learning Through Libraries (LTL) and later renamed ConTextos.
Incunabula is commonly used in English to refer to the earliest stage or origin of something, and especially to copies of books that predate the spread of the printing press c. AD 1500. ab initio: from the beginning: i.e., "from the outset", referring to an inquiry or investigation. Ab initio mundi means "from the beginning of the world".
A gnomon as in Euclid book II Invariant snail in the subtraction of gnomons (Hero's definition). A painted stick dating from 2300 BC that was excavated at the archeological site of Taosi is the oldest gnomon known in China.
Daniela Maduro (2017). “Entre textões e escritões: a narrativa projetada [Between textons and scriptons: the projected narrative],” in Narrativa e Media: géneros, figuras e contextos, edited by Ana Teresa Peixinho and Bruno Araújo. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, pp. 345–375. Daniela Côrtes Maduro (2016).
Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi ( c. 801 –873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers. Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in 1450 ...
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The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters).
English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely similar (but not identical) phonological system.