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fault which earlier was spelt without 1 (as in French whence it was borrowed), and which Goldsmith could still rhyme with aught . In the 15th century the Scottish dialect of English dropped 1 largely both before consonants and finally after a and it, a' = all, fa' = fall, pu' = pull, 'oo' = wool, bulk pronounced like book, &c., while after o it appears as w, row (pronounced rau) _ roll, know=knoll, &c . It is to be observed that L= 50 does not come from this symbol, but was an adaptation of 4/, the western Greek form of x, which had no corresponding sound in Latin and was therefore not included in the ordinary alphabet . This symbol was first rounded into ,J, and then changed first to 1 and ultimately to L . (P .