| 词汇 | letter |
| 词源 | letter. The first private letter written in English dates from about 1392 (before then letters had been written in French), and manuals for letter writers abound from about that date on. Letter, for “a missive,” is first recorded in about 1225. The word derives from the Latin littera, “a letter of the alphabet.” |
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