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Digamma   Listen
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Digamma  n.  (Gr. Gram.) A letter of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse. Note: This form identifies it with the Latin F, though in sound it is said to have been nearer V. It was pronounced, probably, much like the English W.





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"Digamma" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind his work, and say he's sent to school to make himself a good scholar? Well, but he isn't sent to school for that—at any rate, not for that mainly. I don't care a straw for Greek particles, or the digamma; no more does his mother. What is he sent to school for? Well, partly because he wanted so to go. If he'll only turn out a brave, helpful, truth-telling Englishman, and a gentleman, and a Christian, that's all I want," thought the Squire; and upon this view of the ...
— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes


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