Allum Bokhariis a correspondent atBreitbart.^[1][4]

Bokhari was born to a Pakistani father and English/Slovene mother. Allum graduated from the University of Oxford in 2013 with aBachelor of Artsinhistoryandpolitics.^[1]

He began his career as a speechwriting intern at the Department for Education in Westminster from September 2011 to October 2011. He was later a research assistant at Stephen Williams LP starting in September 2013.^[1]

In September 2014, he joinedTechCrunchas a writer. Bohari officially joined Breitbart in May 2016.^[1]

His writing focuses on technolgoy and politics.

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Borb(pronounced /biː/BEE*]])^{[[1]](https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%22B%22%2C%20* [[CITE|1|https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%22B%22%2C%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary%2C2nd%20ed*.*%2C%20Oxford)[2]}letter Latin-script alphabet voiced bilabial stop es, including English. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants.

Old Englishwas originally written in runes, whose equivalent letter was beorc ⟨ᛒ⟩, meaning “birch”. Beorc dates to at least the 2nd-century Elder Futhark, which is now thought to have derived from the Old Italic alphabets’ ⟨ 𐌁 ⟩ either directly or via Latin ⟨⟩.

The uncial ⟨⟩ and half-uncial ⟨⟩ introduced by the Gregorian and Irish missions gradually developed into the Insular scripts’ ⟨⟩. These Old English Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned under King Canute in the early 11th century. The Norman Conquest popularised the Carolingian half-uncial forms which latter developed into blackletter ⟨ ⟩. Around 1300,letter casewas increasingly distinguished, with upper- and lower-case B taking separate meanings. Following the advent of printing in the 15th century,Holy Roman Empire(Germany) and Scandinavia continued to use forms of blackletter (particularly Fraktur), while England eventually adopted the humanist and antiqua scripts developed in Renaissance Italy from a combination of Roman inscriptions and Carolingian texts. The present forms of the English cursive B were developed by the 17th century.

The Roman ⟨B⟩ derived from theGreekcapital beta ⟨Β⟩ via its Etruscan and Cumaean variants. The Greek letter was an adaptation of the Phoenician letter bēt ⟨𐤁⟩.^[3]TheEgyptianhieroglyphfor the consonant /b/ had been an image of a foot and calf ⟨ ⟩,^[4]but bēt (Phoenician for “house”) was a modified form of a Proto-Sinaitic glyph ⟨ ⟩ probably adapted from the separate hieroglyph Pr ⟨ ⟩ meaning “house”.^[5][6]The Hebrew letter beth ⟨ב⟩ is a separate development of the Phoenician letter.^[3]

By Byzantine times, the Greek letter ⟨Β⟩ came to be pronounced /v/,^[3]so that it is known in modern Greek asvíta(still written βήτα). The Cyrillic letter ve ⟨В⟩ represents the same sound, so a modified form known as be ⟨Б⟩ was developed to represent theSlavic languages‘ /b/.^[3](Modern Greek continues to lack a letter for the voiced bilabial plosive and transliterates such sounds from other languages using the digraph/consonant cluster ⟨μπ⟩,mp.)

In English, ⟨b⟩ denotes the voiced bilabial stop /b/, as inbib. In English, it is sometimes silent. This occurs particularly in words ending in ⟨mb⟩, such aslambandbomb, some of which originally had a /b/ sound, while some had the letter ⟨b⟩ added by analogy (see Phonological history of English consonant clusters). The ⟨b⟩ indebt,doubt,subtle, and related words was added in the 16th century as anetymological spelling, intended to make the words more like their Latin originals (debitum,dubito,subtilis).

As /b/ is one of the sounds subject to Grimm’s Law, words which have ⟨b⟩ in English and other Germanic languages may find their cognates in otherIndo-European languagesappearing with ⟨bh⟩, ⟨p⟩, ⟨f⟩ or ⟨φ⟩ instead.^[3]For example, compare the various cognates of the wordbrother. It is the seventh least frequently used letter in the English language (after V, K, J, X, Q, and Z), with a frequency of about 1.5% in words.

Many other languages besides English use ⟨b⟩ to represent a voiced bilabial stop.

In Estonian, Icelandic, and ChinesePinyin, ⟨b⟩ does not denote a voiced consonant. Instead, it represents a voiceless /p/ that contrasts with either a geminated /p:/ (in Estonian) or an aspirated /pʰ/ (in Pinyin, Danish and Icelandic) represented by⟨p⟩. In Fijian ⟨b⟩ represents a prenasalised /mb/, whereas in Zulu and Xhosa it represents an implosive /ɓ/, in contrast to the digraph ⟨bh⟩ which represents /b/.Finnishuses ⟨b⟩ only in loanwords.

In theInternational Phonetic Alphabet, [b] is used to represent the voiced bilabial stop phone. In phonological transcription systems for specific languages, /b/ may be used to represent a lenis phoneme, not necessarily voiced, that contrasts with fortis /p/ (which may have greater aspiration, tenseness or duration).

B is also a musical note. In English-speaking countries, it represents Si, the 12th note of a chromatic scale built on C. In Central Europe and Scandinavia, “B” is used to denote B-flat and the 12th note of the chromatic scale is denoted “H”. Archaic forms of ‘b’, theb quadratum(square b, ♮) andb rotundum(round b, ♭) are used in musical notation as the symbols for natural and flat

In Contracted (grade 2) English braille, ‘b’ stands for “but” when in isolation.

In computer science, B is the symbol forbyte, a unit of information storage.

In engineering, B is the symbol forbel, a unit of level.

In chemistry, B is the symbol forboron, a chemical element.

The blood-type Bemoji(🅱️) was added inUnicode6.0 in 2010, and became a popularinternet memein 2018 where letters would be replaced with the emoji.^[7]