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So here's what I think I understand from what you've said or my own extrapolation: Cwey = anaphor for most recent "C" thing (noun, verb, modifier) Cway = anaphor for next most recent "C" thing Cwey = name for capital consonant "C" Cway = name for small consonant "C" I agree that distinction between capital and small glyphs is useful. My preference is for capital letters to be the more commonly used, since they'll come up in initialisms, license plates, etc. (Or should we associate the more commonly used capital letter names with the "- way" form precisely because "second-most-recent" pronouns are used less often?) The presence or lack of an article lets us know whether it's a pronoun or literally a letter of the alphabet. The name markers would mark an initialism like "IBM". For letter names of vowels and weaks: A: hawey L: helwey E: hewey M: hemwey I: hiwey N: henwey O: howey Q: heqwey U: huwey R: herwey D'accord? We can use compounds to build letter names for other alphabets. "heruhawey" = Hebrew 'A' = aleph As for way-out-there alphabets and syllabaries...I'm confident we can come up with something. ---larry