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How to use digamma in a sentence

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It may be noted that another sherd bearing a fragmentary inscription which includes a digamma was found among the material examined this year.
The original alphabet contained three letters which are now obsolete, one of which was digamma, the sixth letter.
If anyone knows how to put a digamma in, let me know, and I'll fix it.
While this information is in good dictionaries, I have sometimes wanted a more convenient list of words used in Epic which start with the digamma.
Fifty years later, in the catalogue Of Victor Leeson's poetry books, I find Like a digamma my name, and we talk In silence over the breakfast table.
Latin 'F,' despite being pronounced differently, is ultimately descended from digamma and closely resembles it in form.
However, the Greek alphabet also gave rise to other alphabets, and some of these retained letters descended from digamma.
Examples from Classical Literature
Which of these various sounds should be given the digamma appears to have been determined by the law of euphony.
Think of living forty years, like Doctor chocker, on the husks of the digamma!
But he could not do that, so he read the proof-sheets of his new treatise on the digamma.
But we are expressly told that it had the force and sound of the Greek digamma.
I don't care a straw for Greek particles, or the digamma, no more does his mother.
Can it be from that tendency of what we call comprehensively the digamma to lapse into the, which Heyne has observed?
Sometimes the sound of the digamma is given, we are told, where the character itself 31 is not written.
Further, the insignificance of Triptolemus and Eumolpus point to considerable antiquity, and the digamma is still active.
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