What (specifically) do these eight letters have in common, and with that in mind, what’s the only other letter of the alphabet that should appear in this list?
O, P, S, U, V, W, X, Z
HERE is the answer.
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posted by Amy on 9-9-2008 at 9:41 am
Kk looks just as similar or more similar than Uu… is there a reason it didn’t make the cut? The capital U doesn’t have the tail the lower case u does…
posted by Cody on 9-9-2008 at 12:01 pm
I agree. It seems that this is a matter of interpretation and that none of them is truly to scale. To what degree they differ seems open to interpretation. I will vote for these letters with the only close exception being Mm
Vv Cc Kk Oo Pp Ss Uu Ww Xx Yy Zz
posted by GBurns on 9-9-2008 at 12:47 pm
When I learned my letters (In the UK) lowercase “f” was written with the vertical stroke terminating at the horizontal line, as with Uppercase F.
posted by mike D on 9-9-2008 at 2:46 pm
Pp aren’t exactly the same either. Just like the tail at the end of the “u”, there is a slight tail on the top of “p” that isn’t there with the uppercase version (at least on my default font).
posted by Matt W on 9-9-2008 at 3:35 pm