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dimpy | 18:12 Fri 09th Sep 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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why is the alphabet called the alphabet
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In Greek, the first two letters - A and B - are called 'alpha' and 'beta'. Just put the two together!
18:28 Fri 09th Sep 2005
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In addition, the Hebrew "alphabet" is often called the alefbet, becasue the first two letters of the alphabet are Alef and Bet... intersting since Hebrew predates Greek by many centuries.  Ancient Hebrew was a rather simple language, having a vocabulary of only about 30,000 words, compared to over 250,000 for the Greek...(modern English has over 300,000)...
00:03 Sat 10th Sep 2005
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dimpy, impress your teacher and read the book Language Visible by David Sacks on the history of the alphabet.
13:32 Mon 12th Sep 2005
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Its named after the spaghetti
15:51 Thu 15th Sep 2005

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