Ever wondered why we call it Alphabet? The word comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Beta. The system itself was revolutionary because it used symbols to represent sounds. Unlike earlier writing systems like Egyptian hieroglyphs, which represented whole words or ideas. The Greek alphabet later influenced the Latin alphabet, which forms the basis of English and many modern languages today. So every time you recite the ABCs, you're echoing a tradition that began thousa

The Alphabet: History, Purpose, and Development – Ideas