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C is the third letter of the English alphabet It is from the Latin letter C which in old Latin represented the sounds of k and g in go its original value being the latter In Anglo Saxon words or Old English before the Norman Conquest it always has the sound of k The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek Gamma gamma and came from the Greek alphabet The Greeks got it from the Phoelignicians The English name of C is from the Latin name ce and was derived probably through the French Etymologically C is related to g h k q s and other sibilant sounds Examples of these relations are in L acutus E acute ague E acrid eager vinegar L cornu E horn E cat kitten E coy quiet L circare OF cerchier E search