[vc_row section=”yes” padding_bottom=”no” responsive_point=”960″ bg_color=””][vc_column align=”right” width=”1/2″][ish_box color=”none” text_color=”none” inner_padding=”0#0#0#60″ same_height=”yes” vertical_align=”middle”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]”Letter,” borrowed from Old French lettre, entered Middle English around AD 1200, eventually displacing the native English term bocstaf (i.e. bookstaff). Letter derives from Latin littera, which may have derived, via Etruscan, from the Greek “διφθέρα” (writing tablet).[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Middle English plural lettres could refer to an epistle or written document, reflecting the use of the Latin plural litteræ. Use of the singular letter to refer to a written document emerged in the 14th century.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/ish_box][/vc_column][vc_column show_as_first=”yes” width=”1/2″][ish_box color=”none” text_color=”none” inner_padding=”0#60#0#60″ same_height=”yes” vertical_align=”middle”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/1″][ish_headline tag_size=”h2″ color=”color2″ bottom_margin=”no”]A letter is a grapheme[/ish_headline][ish_headline tag_size=”h4″ color=”color2″]in an alphabetic system of writing[/ish_headline][ish_headline tag_size=”h5″ color=”color5″ bottom_margin=”no”]DEFINITION AND USAGE[/ish_headline][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/ish_box][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row vertical_align=”middle” bg_color=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][ish_gallery images=”207,543,191,196,392,395″ thumbnail_size=”theme-half” use_captions=”image” columns=”3″ ratio=”square” border_width=”10″][ish_box color=”color2″ inner_padding=”60#120#60#120″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/1″][ish_quote author=”Billy Collins” size=”h4″ align=”center”]”The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you’re simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.”[/ish_quote][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/ish_box][/vc_column][/vc_row]
