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1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway
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19. _Is the English a perfect Alphabet?_
It is not.

20. _How many Elementary sounds in the English Language?_
About forty-three.

21. _What is an Imperfect Alphabet?_
One in which the number of sounds exceeds the number of letters.

22. _What is an Equivocal Alphabet?_
An Imperfect one.

23. _What is an Unequivocal Alphabet?_
Same as Perfect.

24. _Is the English Alphabet Equivocal or Unequivocal?_
Equivocal.

25. _What is a Univocal Alphabet?_
One that has a separate character for each elementary sound.

26. _What is an Alphabetic Language?_
A language in which the characters represent separate articulate
sounds.

27. _What is a Phonetic Alphabet?_
One in which there is a separate character for each elementary
sound.

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