En vs Wo - What's the difference?
en | wo |
English
(typography) A unit of measurement equal to half of an em (half of the height of the type in use).
A falconer's call to a hawk.
A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
* 1815 , Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects , page 82[http://books.google.com/books?id=BAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82]:
* (Hannah More)
As a pronoun en
is he, him.As a preposition wo is
(lb) by.en
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation.Noun
(head)Etymology 2
The name of the letter comes from (etyl) en. The typographic sense dates to 1793.Noun
(en noun)- The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.
Derived terms
* (typography) en dash * (typography) en quad * (typography) en spaceSee also
*Etymology 3
From (etyl)Derived terms
* en ami * en banc * en bloc * en brochette * en clair * en effet * en famille * en femme * * en garde * en masse * en pantoufles * en passant * * en retard * en retraite * en revanche * en route * en secondes noces * en suiteAnagrams
* English two-letter words ----wo
English
(wikipedia wo)Alternative forms
* whoaEtymology 1
Variant of who .Interjection
(en interjection)Etymology 2
Variant of woe .Noun
(en noun)- Such feeble arms, to work internal wo !
- But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo .