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P or p is the sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is pee (pronounced / ˈ p iː / ), plural pees .
P, sixteenth letter of the modern alphabet. Throughout its known history it has represented the unvoiced labial stop. It corresponds to the Semitic ‘pe,’ which perhaps derives from an earlier sign for ‘mouth.’. The Greeks renamed this form ‘pi.’. The English initial p is slightly aspirated.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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