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(The letter “A” also has two lower case forms: The so-called one-story a, or a circle with a vertical line on its right side, and the two-story a, or a lower loop with a leftward pointing arch atop it.

The shape of the miniscule or lowercase "a" is not different from it's handwritten version at all—it's just that the hand-written version it is based on is now an archaic form for most English speakers (I cannot speak for other languages using latin script).

Originally Answered: Why is the letter 'a' we write and the letter 'a' we type different? We tend to write in the cursive script, which has a continuous stroke so the pen doesn't have to be lifted often. As such, the so-called single-storey 'a' is used.

Unlike most letters, "g" has two lowercase print versions. There's the opentail one that most everyone uses when writing by hand; it looks like a loop with a fishhook hanging from it.

The Printing Press was invented, and printing typeface changed the shape of some letters to fit the needs of printing to avoid blurring and mistaking individual letters. The double-story [a] and [g] were used – and continue to be used in most documents, books, and printed material today.

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Etymology. From the Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not, without”).

A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. The inventory of all letters forms an alphabet. Letters broadly correspond to phonemes in the spoken form of the language, although there is rarely a consistent and exact correspondence between letters and phonemes.