We get letters (published 2004) (2024)

Language visible

To reveal the mystery of the alphabet

From one to Z.

Door David Sacks.

Illustrated.395 pp.New York:

Broadway books.$ 24.95.

Just for fun I didn't start in the beginning.Beloved letter would come out.Just a mess.)

However, this chapter revealed a completely different picture.Since.) The ancient Roman alphabet had no letter J. Classic Latin had no '' J '' sound.Julius Caesar was called Iulius.Alphabet scientists love J '' subordinate to other letters, lacks balance, boldness and dignity of the classical Roman monumental letters. '' And the only example that sags of J in popular culture are enuto -evaluated explanation of '' Jaywalk."" "

Then back to the beginning.Yale University, found cut inscriptions, which the invention of the alphabet around 2000 BC."About three centuries earlier (and in another country) placed than previously thought," Writes Bagen.Hieroglyfer and small sounds of speech allocated to them.all over the world.

'' Language Visible '' is based on a series of 26 weeks of series written at the Ottawa citizen in 2000 and deals with a letter per week., including a section about the origin of the Greek alphabet.