Shape
The letter R is the only letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet in which the uppercase has a closed section and the lowercase does not.
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Famous quotes containing the word shape:
“I used to say: “there is a God-shaped hole in me.” For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“There’s nothing constant in the world,
All ebb and flow, and every shape that’s born
Bears in its womb the seeds of change.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
““Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully.
“Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: “my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)