F is the sixth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /ˈɛf/) is spelled ef or eff.
The origin of F is the Semitic letter vâv that represented the sound /v/, and originally probably represented either a "hook" or a "club". It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph, such as that for "mace":
The Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into Greek as a vowel, upsilon (which resembled its descendan...
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