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WORD OF THE DAY Sunday, July 17, 2022 OED Word of the Day: i-writ, n. Something written; a book, a document, a letter, etc.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Þe mon þe on his youhþe yeorne leorneþ wit and wisdom and i-writen reden, he may beon on elde wenliche lorþeu." - a1300 (▸?c1200), Prov. Alfred (Jesus Oxf.) (1955) 81 (MED)

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All the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet are consonants; however, four letters: א [aleph] ה [he]ו [vav] and י [iod] can be used as vowels as well. Check out the י [iod] and the א [aleph] in the word Israel.

The Hebrew alphabet has a printed form called block letters  אותיות דפוס [otiot dfus]. This is used for anything printed, from books and newspapers to street signs and examples in this text. It also has a cursive form  אותיות כתב [otiot ktav], in which the letters are more round, used for writing by hand. 

Hebrew is today the language of 5.3 million people worldwide.

The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters, of which five have different forms when used at the end of a word. Hebrew is written from right to left.