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Were P And R Once The Same Letter?Do you ever stop and look at the shape of our alphabet? Each letter looks natural to us now, but all those lines and circles have unique histories. It’s easy to make assumptions that our letters make sense, that they developed in some orderly logical way, and one reasonable assumption would be that P and R are related to each other based on their form. …
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street justice, street luge, street ministry, street money, street name, street orderly, street people, street piano, street railway, street rod, street smart
Origin of street orderly
First recorded in 1850–55
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