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An Australian businessman has a new letter of the alphabet. It is a for the word "the". It looks like a "T" and a small "h" joined together. However, it like a letter from the Serbian language. The man, Paul Mathis, believes people will like his idea. People can now from iTunes. Mr Mathis hopes mobile phone, and computer makers will put the letter on their . He spent $35,000 on his , but Apple isn't so interested. He said: "Is this going to the world? Not . But is it something that might be useful for people? I think so."

Mr Mathis thinks the new letter is because it replaces the most English word – "the". He said people will save time because they only need one key of the three needed for the word "the". He said other words have their letter. He showed that the word "and" (the most common word) has its own symbol - the ampersand (&). Mathis thinks his new letter will with Twitter or texting, where there is a on characters. Not everyone with Mathis. Computer experts don't think companies will change their keyboards or operating .

 
 

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