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

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

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

1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading — Part 3

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

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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.

28. _Is there any Phonetic Alphabet of the English Language?_ There have been several published, but they are not in general use.

29. _How many letters in the English Phonetic Alphabet?_ Forty-three.

30. _What is the name of a Letter?_ The appellation by which it is known.

31. _What is the difference between a Letter and its Name?_ The letter is the character, and the name is its appellation.

32. _What Letters name themselves?_ The vowels A, E, I, O, and U.

33. _How are the Letters divided?_ Into Vowels and Consonants.

34. _What are Vowels?_ Those letters which represent only pure tones.

35. _Name all the Vowels._ A, E, I, O, U, and in some situations W and Y.

36. _What is a Consonant?_ A letter that represents an interruption of sound or breath.

37. _Why called Consonants?_ Because they cannot be used alone in a word, but must be connected with a Vowel.

38. _How many kinds of Consonants are there?_ Two; single Letters and Combinations.

39. _Name the Consonant letters._ B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z.

40. _Name the Consonant Combinations._ Th, Sh, Ch, Zh, Wh, and Ng.

41. _Name the two Orders of the Consonants._ Mutes and Semi-vowels.

42. _What are Mutes?_ Those letters which admit of no escape of breath while the organs of speech are in contact.

43. _Name the Mutes._ B, D, K, P, T, and C and G hard.

44. _What other term is often applied to the Mutes?_ Close Consonant.

45. _What are Semi-vowels?_ Those letters that admit of an escape of breath while the organs of speech are in contact.

46. _Name the Semi-vowels._ F, H, J, L, M, N, R, S, V, W, X, Y, Z, and C and G soft.

47. _Are the Combinations Mutes or Semi-vowels?_ They are all Semi-vowels.

48. _What letters are called Nasals?_ M, N, and Ng.