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1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway
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There can; as, brought from bring.

100. _What is Dactylology?_
The art of spelling words with the fingers.

101. _What is the Pythagorean letter?_
Y.--_Am. Cyclopedia_.

102. _Why so called?_
Because its Greek original represents the sacred triad used to
designate the diverging paths of virtue and vice.




NUMERICAL VALUES OF THE LETTERS.


1. _What is meant by the Numerical value of letters?_
Its value as a numeral used in the notation of different languages.

2. _Have all the letters Numerical value?_
All except J, U, W, and Y.

3. _What is the Numerical value of A?_
500.

4. _By whom used?_
The ancient European Nations.

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