First Consonant of our Alphabet, The letter has a Long History.
Like the letter a, the letter b originated in the Fertile Crescent almost four thousand years ago. This character originally meant house or tent. The current form of this letter finds its origins in the Phoenician alphabet, always like the letter a, except that it has always been a consonant and that it was drawn in the other direction.
Initially provided with a single loop, the letter acquires with the Greek alphabet (beta) a second loop to become ϐ (or β at the beginning of a word).
B is also a unit of measurement in chemistry, Boron. This letter represents the B flat for the Germanic note system, the natural B for the Anglo-Saxons. In French the lowercase b denotes the flat.
The sound b in French is transcribed by b in the international phonetic alphabet. It should be noted that in Spanish the sounds b and v are combined in the same pronunciation. In English the letter b can be silent (to climb, climber). In German and Russian the b at the end of a word is pronounced p.
The letter B or Beta in Greek is the second letter of the alphabet and the second component of the word alphabet, which explains why b and beta often mean "second": a plane B is indeed the second alternative (shown by the second letter…); a beta test corresponds to the second phase of testing during the validation of a product, in particular in IT.
Finally, the ß in German, close to a graphic design point of view, corresponds in lowercase to the equivalent of two s.
21 Brilliant words that start with the letter B :
If you had to guess the 10 least used letters of the English alphabet, chances are you wouldn't rank B among Z, Q, X, and J. And on the one hand, you would be right: almost 5% of all the words in a dictionary are listed under the second letter of the alphabet. But when B is not the first letter of a word, it's actually quite rare: take an average page of written English text, and you can expect it to be less than 1.5%. , making B the seventh least used English. letter as a whole. So why not give B a thumbs up with these brilliantly weird words?
1. BABBITTISM
Nobel Laureate Sinclair Lewis' controversial 1922 satire Babbit tells the story of fictional Midwestern businessman George F. Babbitt, who achieves the perfect American middle-class life, but soon finds full conformity and expectations. strangely uncomfortable social. The novel inspired a handful of words that have since entered the language, most notably Babbitism or then Babbling, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "materialistic complacency and thoughtless conformity."
2. BABBLATIVE
If you are chatting, then you are prone to babbling or chattering. Likewise, babbling, or so babbling, chattering, chattering, while a babbling trader is an irrepressibly chatty person.
3. BACKREST
Derived from despang, an Old Scottish word for a sudden jerk or kick, a back is essentially a prick in the tail - a bad turn of events or a sudden, damaging change of mind at the very last minute. It is used in relation to someone going back on their word after a deal has been made.
4. BAFFLEGAB
A speech filled with jargon that aims to clarify something but ends up confusing things? It is disconcerting.
1. BABBITTISM
Nobel Laureate Sinclair Lewis' controversial 1922 satire Babbit tells the story of fictional Midwestern businessman George F. Babbitt, who achieves the perfect American middle-class life, but soon finds full conformity and expectations. strangely uncomfortable social. The novel inspired a handful of words that have since entered the language, most notably Babbitism or then Babbling, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "materialistic complacency and thoughtless conformity."
2. BABBLATIVE
If you are chatting, then you are prone to babbling or chattering. Likewise, babbling, or so babbling, chattering, chattering, while a babbling trader is an irrepressibly chatty person.
3. BACKREST
Derived from despang, an Old Scottish word for a sudden jerk or kick, a back is essentially a prick in the tail - a bad turn of events or a sudden, damaging change of mind at the very last minute. It is used in relation to someone going back on their word after a deal has been made.
4. BAFFLEGAB
A speech filled with jargon that aims to clarify something but ends up confusing things? It is disconcerting.
5. BAHUVRIHI
In linguistics, unbahuvrihi is essentially a compound word in which the first part (To) describes the second (B), so that, according to Merriam-Webster, the whole word (To + B) corresponds to the pattern 'aBC is TO. Words like intellectual, white collar, Bluebeard, Bigfoot, and saber tooth are all examples, as is the word bahuvrihi itself: it literally means "a lot of rice" in Sanskrit, but is used as a nickname for a particularly wealthy man.
6. BALATRON
A 17th century word - derived from Latin for 'gossip' - for a stupid or absurd person.
7. BALBUTIATE
To stutter or studder. Pronounced 'bal-byoosh-ee-ate', by the way, not 'bal-byoot-ee-ate. '
8. BALLAMBANGJANG
Any fictional or fantasy location - where a story that seems too good to be true could be assumed to have taken place - is a Ballambangjang. The name first appeared in the language of 19th-century nautical slang in reference to the 'Ballambangjang Strait', a fictional strait in Southeast Asia (based on the actual seas off the island of Balambangan near Borneo) which the sailors claimed to be 'so narrow, and the rocks on either side so crowded with trees inhabited by monkeys, that the ship's yards cannot be squared because of the monkey's tail getting stuck and suffocate the reinforcement blocks.
9. BATHYSIDERODROMOPHOBIA
A form of claustrophobia: if you don't like traveling in subways, then you are bathysiderodromophobic.Other Bfears include bathophobia (fear of depth), belonephobia (needles), batrachophobia (reptiles), blennophobia (slime) and both bacteriophobia (fear of bacteria) and bacillophobia (germs).
10. BATTOLOGIZE
To beatologize is to annoy someone by repeating the same thing over and over again. And even. And even.
11. BAUBLE HOLDER
A court jester - and therefore, figuratively, a stupid, empty-headed person.
12. BED-SWERVER
A word for an unfaithful lover, invented by Shakespeare. In the same way …
13. BUF
Another Shakespearean invention, meaning "idiot" or "slow brain".
14. BELLY BELLY
In Tudor English, a great feast or great food was stomach-cheering ...
15. BIBACITY
A 17th century word for “excessive alcohol consumption”.
16. BIBBLE-BABBLE
Foolish gossip or gossip. A word "very common" in the 1500s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
17. BIBLIOMANY
If you are crazy about books, then you are a book junkie. In that case, you're probably better off staying away from bibliokleptomaniacs, who are just as crazy about stealing books.
18. BIGLOT
If you read this as 'a jackpot' try again: a 'bi-glottis' is someone who speaks two languages. Bonus: over 50 percent of the world's population is bilingual, so if you can only speak one language, you're part of a global minority.
19. BLANDILOQUIA
Empty flattery is blandiloquy, or else blandiloquence.
20. BLITTRO
An old word in the Scottish dialect for anything thin and watery.
21. BLOWSABELLA
In seventeenth-century slang, a then blowsabella was a dirty and ill-dressed woman, or more precisely, "a woman whose hair is disheveled and hung around her face."
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To beatologize is to annoy someone by repeating the same thing over and over again. And even. And even.
11. BAUBLE HOLDER
A court jester - and therefore, figuratively, a stupid, empty-headed person.
12. BED-SWERVER
A word for an unfaithful lover, invented by Shakespeare. In the same way …
13. BUF
Another Shakespearean invention, meaning "idiot" or "slow brain".
14. BELLY BELLY
In Tudor English, a great feast or great food was stomach-cheering ...
15. BIBACITY
A 17th century word for “excessive alcohol consumption”.
16. BIBBLE-BABBLE
Foolish gossip or gossip. A word "very common" in the 1500s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
17. BIBLIOMANY
If you are crazy about books, then you are a book junkie. In that case, you're probably better off staying away from bibliokleptomaniacs, who are just as crazy about stealing books.
18. BIGLOT
If you read this as 'a jackpot' try again: a 'bi-glottis' is someone who speaks two languages. Bonus: over 50 percent of the world's population is bilingual, so if you can only speak one language, you're part of a global minority.
19. BLANDILOQUIA
Empty flattery is blandiloquy, or else blandiloquence.
20. BLITTRO
An old word in the Scottish dialect for anything thin and watery.
21. BLOWSABELLA
In seventeenth-century slang, a then blowsabella was a dirty and ill-dressed woman, or more precisely, "a woman whose hair is disheveled and hung around her face."
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