Poll by Email No. 12

        This week's poll is brought to you by Philip Newton, who is curious about
how you name letters. (Since someone will inevitably ask about syllabic
systems, wedge them wherever they fit.)
        A. My language has names for letters which mean something (like Hebrew
"aleph" = "ox", "beth" = house")
        B. My language has names for letters which have no meaning, but look like
"real words" (like Greek "alpha, beta")
        C. My language has names for letters, but they're fairly simple. However,
there are a variety of methods used to form the names (such as French "cé,
ji, ache, elle")
        D. My language has names for letters, and they're fairly repetitive -- say,
two main methods of forming names (such as /xe/ and /Ex/ for consonants /x/).
        E. My language has very boring names for letters (such as Esperanto "a, bo,
co, cxo, do").
        F. My language has no names for its letters.

        :Peter

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7. Poll topics welcome.
8. The poll results and a selection of responses will be posted next
Saturday, 1 June, along with a new poll question.

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