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  2. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The first Canaanite states to make extensive use of the alphabet were the Phoenician city-states and so later stages of the Canaanite script are called "Phoenician". The Phoenician cities were maritime states at the center of a vast trade network and soon the Phoenician alphabet spread throughout the Mediterranean.

  3. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the centuries that followed, various letters entered or fell out of use.

  4. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    Roman cursive script, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the Latin alphabet, and even by emperors issuing commands.

  5. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1]

  6. This Is Why “W” Is Pronounced Double U and Not Double V - AOL

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    This Latin alphabet was then forced to come up with a symbol to represent the sound of the “w.” According to GrammarPhobia, this 7th-century problem was remedied by the symbol “uu,” which ...

  7. History of the Greek alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Greek alphabet was developed during the Iron Age, centuries after the loss of Linear B, the syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek until the Late Bronze Age collapse and Greek Dark Age. This article concentrates on the development of the alphabet before the modern codification of the standard Greek alphabet.

  8. Why Alphabet's "Challenging" 2025 May Benefit the Stock ... - AOL

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    He called this a disruptive moment and said that Alphabet needed to be able to use AI to help solve real-world problems. At the same time, Pichai acknowledged the regulatory pressure the company ...

  9. Why Alphabet Jumped 35.5 % in 2024 - AOL

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    Shares of Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) surged 35.5% in 2024, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Alphabet entered 2024 under a cloud of skepticism ...