David Sacks' book, 'Language Visible', gives a fascinating insight on how our Roman Alphabet grew throughout the ages, beginning with the Phoenicians and adapting numerous other civilization's systems of writing. For example the letter 'A' is derived from the pictogram of an 'ox', 'Aleph' in Phoenician. If you turn the capital letter 'A' on the side, you can still see the horns.
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Merci pour la nice plug!
GB: and may your enterprise bring in beaucoup de bucks!
Have you seen the book ABCs Naturally by Diebel and Kalscheur? (Trails Books, 2003)
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