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FloydRoyz0116 wrote: If u cant survive a zombie apocalypse for 1 day u suck day "u" suck =U= From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the letter of the alphabet. For other uses, see U (disambiguation). U (named u  /ˈjuː/, plural ues[1] [2] ) is the twenty-first letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a vowel in the English alphabet.



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[hide]  *1 History  ==History[ edit] == The letter u ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw by way of the letter y. See the letter y for details.
 * 2 Use in English
 * 3 Use in other languages
 * 4 In mathematics and science
 * 5 Related letters and other similar characters
 * 6 Computing codes
 * 7 Other representations
 * 8 References
 * 9 External links

During the late Middle Ages, two forms of 'v' developed, which were both used for its ancestor 'u' and modern 'v'. The pointed form 'v' was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form 'u' was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So whereas 'valor' and 'excuse' appeared as in modern printing, 'have' and 'upon' were printed 'haue' and 'vpon'. The first distinction between the letters 'u' and 'v' is recorded in a Gothic alphabet from 1386, where 'v' preceded 'u'. Printers eschewed capital 'U' into the 17th century and the distinction between the two letters was not fully accepted by the French Academy until 1762.[3] ==Use in English[ edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In English the letter is pronounced differently in different words. As an English vowel letter, it has a "long" and "short" pronunciation that are used in different contexts. Short 'u', found in closed syllables, commonly represents  /<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/ʌ/ short 'u' in 'bud'">ʌ/  (as in 'duck') or  /<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/ʊ/ short 'oo' in 'foot'">ʊ/  (as in 'put'). Long 'u' commonly represents  /<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/juː/ long 'u' in 'cute'">juː/  ("long U" as in 'mule') or  /<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/uː/ long 'oo' in 'food'">uː/  (as in 'blue'). In a select few words, short 'u' may also represent  /<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/ɪ/ short 'i' in 'bid'">ɪ/  (as in 'business').

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Additionally, the letter 'u' is used in text messaging and internet and other written slang to denote 'you', by virtue of both being pronounced  /<span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;" title="/juː/ long 'u' in 'cute'">juː/. ==Use in other languages<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In most languages that use the Latin alphabet, 'U' represents the close back rounded vowel /u/<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed].

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In French orthography the letter represents the close front rounded vowel(/y/); /u/ is represented by 'ou'. ==In mathematics and science<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The symbol 'U' is the chemical symbol for uranium.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">'u' is the symbol for the atomic mass unit.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">U is also the source of the mathematical symbol ∪, representing a union. It is used mainly for Venn diagrams and geometry.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">It is also used as a graphic approximation of the Greek letter μ (mu) for micro- in metric measurements, as in "um" for μm (micrometer). ==Related letters and other similar characters<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;"> ==Computing codes<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 𐤅: Phoenician letter waw, the original glyph
 * Υ υ : Greek letter upsilon, from which U is descended
 * У у : Cyrillic letter u, descended from upsilon
 * V v : Latin letter V, from which U is directly descended
 * W w : Latin letter W, which, like U, is descended from V
 * Y y : Latin letter Y, also descended from upsilon (like V)
 * F f : Latin letter F, which also shares its roots with U, V, W, and Y
 * N n : Latin letter N, an upside-down upper case "U" in some typefaces and fonts
 * ∩ : Intersection, an upside-down upper case "U"
 * Ŭ ŭ : Latin letter U with breve
 * Ʉ ʉ : Latin letter U with bar
 * Ü ü : Latin letter U with diaeresis/umlaut
 * Ү ү : Cyrillic letter ue


 * <sup style="line-height:1;">1   Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

==Other representations<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==