The EmbroideressSunday, April 23, 2006
About Our Alphabets
This Guardian article might be a bit more than I want to know about alphabets but their formation and development have always fascinated me.
This began in early childhood when the family encyclopedia started every section with an article about the history of the letter. So before aardvark (or whatever the first "a" article covered), you got a few paragraphs on the letter A.
This began in early childhood when the family encyclopedia started every section with an article about the history of the letter. So before aardvark (or whatever the first "a" article covered), you got a few paragraphs on the letter A.
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