A series of distinctive letters, called "gallows" for their resemblance to a hangman's scaffold, are sometimes conjoined with other letters, or have been embellished with elaborate curlicues by a scribe.
In ca. 1550, Francisco de la Parra invented distinctive letters for ejectives in the Mayan languages of Guatemala, the tresillo and cuatrillo (and derivatives).
One even pointed to Mr. Gotti's distinctive letter "f".
CHIP painted his distinctive letter-based moniker, filled with wild colors and tricked out with spacey patterns and a tribute to the recently-deceased Prince.
The address on the envelope was written in distinctive block letters and included the misspelled word "Beverley". Less than a year after Berman died, Robert Durst was arrested in connection with the slaying of Morris Black, his elderly neighbor in Galveston, Texas.
By then, Mallinckrodt's blue 30-milligram oxycodone tablets had become so popular among drug users and dealers that they had a street name — "M's," for the company's distinctive block-letter logo.
For everyone else who misses her mother (whose real name was Esther Lederer and who was known as Eppie) and her distinctive voice, the letters are a time machine to breakfast tables past, where that good-girl advice was delivered with a zing all its own.
Similarly, distinctive lower case letters (i, m, o, v, & w) and uppercase (A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X, & Y) are typical in shape and therefore not as likely to be confusing.
Only a small part of each letter attracted children's attention and the briefer their fixations on this distinctive area, the more letters they knew at the pretest and were able to learn from alphabet book sharing.
Jonathan Meades occupies a strange, ill-defined yet distinctive position in English letters.
In nearly 50 plays, novels, children's books, and poetry and essay collections, Ms. Shange went on to establish herself as one of the most distinctive voices in American letters, a stylistic innovator who blended forms and genres to address themes of women's empowerment, racial inequality, domestic abuse, abandonment and self-respect.
