Letters

  • (noun): The literary culture.
    Example: "This book shows American letters at its best"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on letters, letter:

Vehicle Registration Plates Of Indonesia - Registration Plate Design - Design Convention
... vehicle license plate in Indonesia follows the following format LL NNNN LL where "L" are letters of the Latin alphabet, and "N" and numbers from "0" to "9" (note that the first number is never a "0") ... The first single or double letters denote the area of registration ... This is then followed by one or two letters although they may be optional ...
Spelling
... Spelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and diacritics ... but not always, means an accepted standard spelling or the process of naming the letters ... the sounds of the language into alphabetic letters, but phonetic spellings are exceptions in many languages for various reasons ...
Epistle - Ancient Greece and Rome
... The letters of Cicero are one of the most important sources on the history of the late Roman Republic and preserve features of colloquial Latin not always in evidence in his speeches and ... The letters of Pliny the Younger likewise are studied as both examples of Latin prose with self-conscious literary qualities and sources for historical information ... collections of verse epistles, composed in elegiac couplets the Heroides, letters written in the person of legendary women to their absent lovers and the ...
Zita (Hittite Prince)
... a Hittite prince and probably the brother of Suppiluliuma I, (Šuppiluliumaš of the letters), in the 382–letter correspondence called the Amarna letters ... The letters were mostly sent to the pharaoh of Egypt from 1350-1335 BC, but other internal letters, vassal-state letters, and epics, also word texts, are part of the letter corpus ... Zita's letter to the Egyptian pharaoh is addressed to someone at the Egyptian court ...
Rosa Luxemburg - Life - Germany
... The recently published Letters of Rosa Luxemburg shed important light on Rosa Luxemburg’s life in Germany ... of the book in the Globe and Mail “The three decades covered by the 230 letters in this collection provide the context for her major contributions as a ... revolution was a way of life,” and yet that the letters also challenge the stereotype of “Red Rosa” as a stupid fighter ...

More definitions of "letters":

  • (noun): Scholarly attainment.
    Example: "He is a man of letters"

Famous quotes containing the word letters:

    “Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.
    For, thus friends absent speak.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    “Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.”
    —David Elkind (20th century)

    “Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose.... In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires....”
    —Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916)