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R is the eighteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is ar (IPA /ɑːr/ ([ɑː] or [ɑːɹ]).
The original Semitic letter was probably inspired by an Egyptian hieroglyph for "head", pronounced t-p in Egyptian, but it was used for /r/ by Semites because in their language, the word for "head" was Rêš (also the name of the letter). It developed into Greek Ρ ῥῶ (Rhô) and Latin R. It is likely that some Etruscan and Western Greek forms of the letter added the extra stroke to distinguish it from a later form of the letter P.
In Unicode the capital R is codepoint U+0052 and the lowercase r is U+0072. The ASCII code for capital R is 82 and for lowercase r is 114; or in binary 01010010 and 01110010, correspondingly. The EBCDIC code for capital R is 217 and for lowercase r is 153. The numeric character references in HTML and XML are not displayable, as you'd just see 'R' and 'r'.
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“R”... first letter in “Roberta.” (Without it, my name would be Obeta.) :)
yeah...without R my name would be Ichelle...Richelle
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Agreed. No, the “R” definitely lends an air of non-silliness to our names. :)
As my nephews were just little kids they called me Beto, as they coulden't pronounce the two Rs of Roberto. But now they are 18 and 17 years old and they still do. Somebody should explain them the usefulness of the letter R.
(Laughing)... my little brothers used to call me “Bud-uh.” Maybe the “r” sound is difficult to learn.