This is the re heat pizza accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2023. This article is about the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. For the Unicode block containing this character, see Letterlike Symbols. For the film, see R and J.

R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. English spelling, such as British English. F, L, M, N and S. This name is preserved in French and many other languages. A good example of a trilled R is in the Spanish word for dog, perro.

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, such a reference is made by Juliet’s nurse in Act 2, scene 4, when she calls the letter R “the dog’s name”. The reference is also found in Ben Jonson’s English Grammar. P at the same time still retains its archaic shape distinguishing it from Greek or Old Italic rho. The original Semitic letter may have been inspired by an Egyptian hieroglyph for tp, “head”. Along with Latin minuscule writing in general, it developed ultimately from Roman cursive via the uncial script of Late Antiquity into the Carolingian minuscule of the 9th century. In handwriting, it was common not to close the bottom of the loop but continue into the leg, saving an extra pen stroke.

The loop-leg stroke shortened into the simple arc used in the Carolingian minuscule and until today. R with mid-height left hook was used by the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 20th century for romanization of the Malayalam language. 1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings. Losing My Voice – This Happened to Me”. A Word A Day: Dog’s letter”. 20-266R “Consolidated code chart of proposed phonetic characters” and IPA etc.