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The fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonant. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonant. The letter N came into English through the Latin and Greek from the Phœnician, which probably derived it from the Egyptian as ...