Talk:P

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Writing systems Low‑importance This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Writing systems, a WikiProject interested in improving the encyclopaedic coverage and content of articles relating to writing systems on Wikipedia. If you would like to help out, you are welcome to drop by the project page and/or leave a query at the project’s talk page.Writing systemsWikipedia:WikiProject Writing systemsTemplate:WikiProject Writing systemsWriting system articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Daily pageviews of this article A graph should have been displayed here but graphs are temporarily disabled. Until they are enabled again, visit the interactive graph at pageviews.wmcloud.org

native English words beginning with P. In other words, all English words beginning with P are from Latin (not necessarily via French.) Counter-examples?? Georgia guy 15:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Pee, potty Potty Time 01:10, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Depends entirely on what you count as a word. Continuing the toilet theme we have poo, which is 'probably from pooh'. The 'boat' meaning of pram is from Chech, which isn't exactly 'native' English, but there's not Latin involved, and I'm not sure what you mean by native anyway. In any case, there are countless counterexamples. --Dom 14:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pool. Also used in Old English. --Kjoonlee 04:13, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention plot, plow, pot, prick, pride, pretty, puddle, puff, pull, pimple, plight, and so on. There are tons of P-words of native origin. Nohat 19:19, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It has been a long time since this discussion, but why is this question interesting?? The answer is that many English words beginning with P are from Latin. In Latin, words derived from a Proto-Indo-European word starting with P remain P-words. In German, which Old English comes from, such words become F-words. Georgia guy (talk) 16:28, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, /pi/ and /piː/ are just as valid as [pʰiː]. The // slashes denote phonemic transcription, while the [] square brackets denote phonetic transcription. Phonetic transcription can describe the actual pronunciation very narrowly (using as much detail as is wanted), while phonemic transcription can be broad (using as little detail as is needed). --Kjoonlee 03:38, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

you are right, but it shows brackets, not slashes. DeseretIsGreat (talk) 19:31, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've heard other English speakers (non-American) say the letter "p" as "plural". I was told it was similar to the difference in pronunciation of "z" as "zee" or "zed". Anybody know more about this? --207.215.78.126 18:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly a joking allusion to galactic sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha (pronounced with zeds) in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. —Tamfang (talk) 23:09, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there a picture of a dragon on this article, what the fuck does it have to do with the letter P. Anonymous MAR. 4, '07 1:12

In the Astronomy section, it begins with this sentence:

"In astronomy, space

P stands for periodic (comet), as in 1P/Halley or 173P/Mueller."

Is the beginning of that statement "P stand for piss*" an error? It doesn't make any sense, and I can find no other reference that shows it has any relevance to astronomy. Someone else removed it before I could. Zanshin 09:49, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Denotes a smiley - emotion of poking out a tongue. Meaing person is being cheeky, playful or could mean wry.

It could also be considered lecherous depending upon the context in which its used as well. On the net and images

Tgkprog (talk) 18:02, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Has anyone proposed a way of writing a P so that forgers can't turn it into an R?? Georgia guy (talk) 23:26, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A sentence is unfinished in the history section of this article. I've looked through the history, but I cannot find whatever edit last modified that section. What was meant to be there, or is this vandalism? It doesn't appear to be.  Awesomeness  talk  20:38, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The user above should have looked a bit further to find this edit. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 02:27, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why doesn't this page have a history section? Every letter page has one. 151.202.97.186 (talk) 22:59, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Because of the vandalism in this edit, and the following edit, which simply deleted the vandalism instead of reverting. --Florian Blaschke (talk)

It seems like it should be related to the Greek & Cyrillic pi/pe (Π π). The morphology is odd as it is easily confused with rho (Ρ ρ).--Keelec (talk) 10:20, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I checked Wiktionary's PIE roots and found only one English word from Proto-Indo-European initial b (which is where a native p-word would come from.) This word is peg. Any comments?? Georgia guy (talk) 02:12, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's consistent with what the article already says. —Tamfang (talk) 03:39, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to P sharp there is also the P (programming language) Should be added to "For the programming language, see P Sharp." It should be extended to: "For the programming language, see P, P Sharp, ..." Where the triple dots refer to List of programming languages#P.

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

2401:4900:3673:5BD2:1995:95CB:A4BC:D29C (talk) 04:27, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a

reliable source if appropriate. Danski454 (talk) 08:15, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply

]

Semi-protected edit request on 12 December 2018

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

124.123.22.77 (talk) 10:23, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a

reliable source if appropriate. AntiCedros (talk) 11:29, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply

]