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| | MSN Encarta - Alphabet |
 | | In early Semitic languages, for example, the pictograph representing the word for house, beth in the spoken language, eventually came to represent the sound of the consonant b, the first sound in beth. |
 | | For example, the pictographs for sun and tree were combined to represent the concept of east. |
 | | English, for example, can represent the long o sound with a single o (as in go), the letters ow (as in glow), the letters oa (as in throat), and the letters ew (as in sew). |
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