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C
C
C is
the
third
letter
of
the
English
alphabet
. It is
from
the
Latin
letter
C,
which
in
old
Latin
represented
the
sounds
of k,
and
g (in go);
its
original
value
being
the
latter
. In
Anglo
-
Saxon
words
, or
Old
English
before
the
Norman
Conquest
, it
always
has
the
sound
of k.
The
Latin
C
was
the
same
letter
as
the
Greek
/, /,
and
came
from
the
Greek
alphabet
.
The
Greeks
got
it
from
the
Ph/
nicians
.
The
English
name
of C is
from
the
Latin
name
ce,
and
was
derived
,
probably
,
through
the
French
.
Etymologically
C is
related
to g, h, k, q, s (
and
other
sibilant
sounds
).
Examples
of
these
relations
are
in L.
acutus
, E.
acute
,
ague
; E.
acrid
,
eager
,
vinegar
; L.
cornu
, E.
horn
; E.
cat
,
kitten
; E.
coy
,
quiet
; L.
circare
, OF.
cerchier
, E.
search
.
C
The
keynote
of
the
normal
or "
natural
"
scale
,
which
has
neither
flats
nor
sharps
in
its
signature
;
also
,
the
third
note
of
the
relative
minor
scale
of
the
same
.
C
C
after
the
clef
is
the
mark
of
common
time
, in
which
each
measure
is a
semibreve
(
four
fourths
or
crotchets
);
for
alla
breve
time
it is
written
/.
C
The
"C
clef
," a
modification
of
the
letter
C,
placed
on
any
line
of
the
staff
,
shows
that
line
to be
middle
C.
C
As a
numeral
, C
stands
for
Latin
centum
or
100
, CC
for
200
,
etc
.
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