` 'breathing' is in the Phoenician alphabet? Seems a little confusing. Is it just a breath space? Intake? outtake?  == Commercial at's ==  What are all the @ symbols doing in the middle of the article. They look to me like placeholders for what ought to be inline images.  SGBailey 2004-02-24  : The article seems to be adapted from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. The @'s are also present in Project Gutenbergs version. To fix it, we will need someone with the paper version of EB or knowledge of the subject. I have listed the article in Wikipedia:Cleanup. Hopefully someone will notice it.     == Top grade == I cut the limitation that A is the top grade in English-speaking school systems; it's much more widespread than that.     Yeah, I wasn't sure, but changed it to that cause it certainly is used outside US!     == Eagle ==  According to Microsoft Encarta, an early ancestor of the letter ``A`` is an Egyptian hieroglyph for ``Eagle``.  == Writing ==  What about writing, I only see printing characters here.    == Lax open front unrounded vowel ==  I Googled this and found only 'open front unrounded vowel' as we don't have a finished entry for it. Seems like that should be the link (which we do already have an entry for). Anybody disagree?  == Suggest 2 possible wiki links for A. ==  An  has some possible wiki link suggestions for the A article:  * Can link aspect ratio: ...international paper sizes]], A is a series of sizes with an aspect ratio of roughly 70% width to height, with A4 being an example po... * Can link British rock: ... (band)|Jethro Tull]]; see ''[[A (album)]]''. ** ''A'' is a British rock band; see ''[[A (band)]]''.... Notes: The article text has not been changed in any way; Some of these suggestions may be wrong, some may be right. '': , ,  —    ==Alfa==  Thank you, Georgia guy, for making me feel free to discuss this.  But for your permission....  You, likewise, should feel free to read the page NATO phonetic alphabet, where three of the four authorities listed spell it ‘alfa’, including the ICAO, which is the authority described as sponsoring the NATO phonetic alphabet in the opening paragraph.  I see no reason to further clarify things in this article, since they are fully discussed in the other one.  If you'' do, please leave ‘alfa’ as the principal spelling.—  06:51, 2005 Feb 11 (UTC) :It's my understanding, as a former US Army member (though which I would use the NATO phonetic alphabet) that using ``Alfa`` instead of ``Alpha`` is because not all languages recognize the digraph ``ph`` as having the ``f`` sound. The pronunciation of ``niner`` for ``9`` comes from the German word ``nein`` (``no``) and why US radio procedure calls for using ``negative`` (and conversely, ``affirmative``) instead. See NATO_phonetic_alphabet#usage    ==Next Page in Wikipedia?== I started here on ``A`` hoping there was a next page button so I could (eventually) read through the entire Wikipedia. Any way of getting that functionality? :It would have to be added to the mediawiki software. It's open source, so if you can program, you could create the feature, send it to the developers, and hope it makes its way into the official version. ·  ::To put it another way, there are currently about 500,000 articles on the English Wikipedia. If you read through them for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, spending say 10 minutes on each, it would take you about 40 years to read through the encyclopedia, during which time the number of articles would probably have increased many times over, and many of the articles you read at the beginning would have changed since you last read them. So I would suggest that reading through the encyclopedia from A to Z is not realistic (and by the way the alphabetical sequence doesn't start at A, as there are many articles with numeric hea