Bazaar covered bazaar typical of Iraq. After sustaining irreparable damage during the country's civil war, Beirut's ancient souks have been completely modernised and rebuilt while maintaining the original ancient Greek street grid, major landmarks and street names. In the Balkans, the term, 'Bedesten' is used to describe a covered market or bazaar. In Turkey, the term 'bazaars' is used in the English sense, to refer to a covered market place. In Turkish the term for bazaar is "çarşı." Bazaar A bazaar is a permanently enclosed marketplace or street where goods and services are exchanged or sold. The term originates from the
Letter (alphabet) the surrounding letters or etymology of the word. Regional accents have a significant effect; the letter "a" can range from five to twelve sounds depending on the origin of the speaker. As an example of positional effects, the letter "c" is pronounced [k] before "a, o, u," or consonants (e.g. "critical"), but is pronounced [s] before "e," "i," or "y" (e.g. "democracy"). Conversely, the same phoneme may be shared by more than one letter, as shown by the "c" and "s" in "fence" and "tense". A pair of letters designating a single phoneme is called a digraph. Examples of digraphs