1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading | Page 8

Have all the letters Numerical value? All except J, U, W, and Y.
3. What is the Numerical value of A? 500.
4. By whom used? The ancient European Nations.
5. What is the Numerical value of B? 300.
6. By whom used? The Romans.
7. What is the Numerical value of C? 100 in the Roman notation.
8. What is the Numerical value of D? 500 in the Roman notation.
9. What is the Numerical value of E? 5.
10. By whom used? The ancient Greeks.
11. What is the Numerical value of F? 40 in some of the Ancient notations; 80 in the Arabian; and 10,000 in the Armenian.
12. What is the Numerical value of G? 400.
13. By whom used? The Latins.
14. What is the Numerical value of H? 100 in the Greek notation; and 200 in the Latin.
15. What is the Numerical value of I? 1 in the Roman notation; and 100 in some of the Ancient notations.
16. What is the Numerical value of K? 20 in the Greek notation; and 60 in the Semitic.
17. Give the Numerical values of L. 50 in Roman, and 30 in Semitic notation.
18. What are the Numerical values of M? As a Roman numeral, 1,000; Greek and Hebrew, 40.
19. What is the value of N as a Numeral? In the Greek notation, 50; Roman, 90; and by some other, 900.
20. What is the Numerical value of O? 70 in the Greek; and 11 in the Ancient Latins.
21. What is the Numerical value of P? In the Greek notation, 5; in the Latin, 80; and in the Roman, by some authors, 7, by one, 100, and by still another, 400.
22. As a Numeral, what is the value of Q? 500.
23. By whom used? Several of the Ancient Nations of Europe.
24. What is the Numerical value of R? 80
25. By whom used? The ancient Romans.
26. What is the Numerical value of S? 7
27. By whom used? The Ancients.
28. Give the values of T as a Numeral. 300 in the Greek notation; in the Latin, 160.
29. What is the Numerical value of V? 5 in the Roman notation.
30. What are the values of X as a Numeral? In the Roman, 10; in the Greek, 60.
31. What are the Numerical values of Z? 7 in the Greek notation; and 2,000 in the Roman.
32. Why have J, U, W, and Y no Numerical values? Because they have been introduced into the Alphabet since the Science of Arithmetical Notation was invented.
33. _What effect does it have on the value of a letter to draw a line above it?_ In most cases it increases its value a thousand times.
34. Is a line ever drawn beneath a letter for the same purpose? In some instances it is.
35. _What effect does it have on a letter as a numeral to repeat it?_ Repeats its value as often as it is repeated.

CAPITALS AND ITALICS.
1. What is a Capital letter? A large letter.
2. What is an Italic letter? A form of oblique letters derived from the Italians.
3. What is Rule 1 for the use of Capitals? Title pages and headings of chapters should be entirely in capitals.
4. Give Rule 2. The first word of every book, tract, essay, letter, etc., should begin with a capital.
5. Give Rule 3. The first word of every sentence should begin with a capital.
6. Give Rule 4. Clauses separately numbered should begin with a capital.
7. Give Rule 5. The first word after an interrogation point should usually begin with a capital.
8. Give Rule 6. The first word of a clause, or sentence, given as an example, should begin with a capital.
9. Give Rule 7. In quoting a title of a book, each important word of the title should begin with a capital.
10. Give Rule 8. First word of a direct question should begin with a capital.
11. Give Rule 9. The first word of a direct quotation should begin with a capital.
12. Give Rule 10. All letters used as numerals should be written or printed in capitals.
13. Give Rule 11. The pronoun I should always be a capital.
14. Give Rule 12. The vocative particle O should always be a capital.
15. Give Rule 13. The first word of every line of poetry should begin with a capital.
16. Give one exception to Rule 13. In humorous poetry, when a word is divided at the end of a line, the detached syllable at the beginning of the next line should begin with a small letter.
17. Give Rule 14. All names and titles of the Deity should begin with a capital.
18. Give Rule 15. All proper names should begin with a capital.
19. Give Rule 16. All words derived from proper nouns should begin with a capital.
20. Give Rule 17. Titles of honor and distinction should begin with capitals.
21. Give Rule 18. The words father, mother, sister, brother, aunt, etc., when followed