When legibility cannot be counted on, editors and proofreaders occasionally need to name letters (“a cue, not a gee”). The name of a letter, as distinct from the letter itself, is usually set in roman type, without quotation marks. The following standard spellings are drawn from Webster’s Collegiate. With vowels, which are not named in standard dictionaries, it may be best to give an example (“a as in apple”). (For the names of special characters, see chapter 11, esp. tables 11.1 and 11.2.)
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