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P. The ancient Phoenicians and Hebrews called our 16th let- ter pe, “mouth.” P. in music means “piano,” while the five P’s is Englishman William Oxberry (1784–1824) who was for his all too brief 40 years a printer, poet, publisher, publican, and player (actor). The 16th-century Dominican monk Placentius wrote a poem of 253 verses called Pugna Porcorum in which every word begins with a p, the first line translating as “Praise Paul’s prize pig’s prolific progeny.” |