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B Second letter of the Roman-based w European alphabet, almost always representing a voiced bilabial plosive consonant or stop. It is probably derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a house (c.3000 bc), which became part of the Semitic alphabet about 1500 years later as the letter beth. From there it was taken to Greece (c.600 bc) to become beta, the forerunner of the Roman and thus the modern B.

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