The Letter H

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This feature is all about H.  Will I attract money with an aitch-y palm? ;-)

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"H"

1) Like our alphabet, what other 4 cultures have the letter H
as the 8th letter?

2) According to many historians, the letter H started out as an
Egyptian hieroglyph for a ___.

3) What sound did the Egyptian hieroglyph (of question #2) represented the same guttural, back-of-the-throat sound sounded like?

4) What is the meaning of kheth that the Semites call their H-sound character?

5) When the Greek borrowed the kheth, what did the Greeks call this letter?

6) What 2 cultures adapted this Greek letter (of question #5) for their own alphabet?

7) Which culture produced the prototype of our current letter H?


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You don't have to H or scratch ;-)

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DL
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“Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.” 
-- Steven Redhead, The Solution

The Letter G

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This feature is all about G.  G-nius! ;-)

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"G"

1) When did the letter G make its official debut?

2) The Phoenicians and the Semitic people used a graphic form that looked roughly like a ___ to represent the G sound (as in "go").

3) The Phonicians call this letter a gimmel which means "___".

4) What name did the Greeks give to the Phoenician letter gimmel?

5) Which two cultures adopted the same Greek letter?

6) Which reformed alphabet formally introduced our modern letter G?

7) Why was the letter G created?

8) The letter G became the 7th letter of our alphabet and replaced the letter ___.

9) From question #8, where was this former 7th letter moved in the alphabet?  Why?



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G-nius G!

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DL
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“Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.” 
-- Steven Redhead, The Solution

The Letter F

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This feature is all about F.  F-fectively featured! ;-)

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"F"

1) The letter F evolved from an Egyptian Hieroglyph which is a picture of a ___.

2) What did this Egyptian character (of question 1) look like when simplified?

3) The Phoenicians called this character "waw" meaning ___ or ___.

4) What 3 sounds does this Phoenician letter make?

5) When the Greek used this Phoenician letter, they split this letter into two characters.  One represented the ___ sound and the other represented the ___ sound.

6) What two sounds did the Romans use with the F symbol?

7) The German language uses the letter ___ to represent the F sound.

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F-ficient F!

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DL
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“Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.” 
-- Steven Redhead, The Solution

The Letter E

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This feature is all about E.  It's relaxing and at E's ;-)

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"E"

1) Which players say that the letter E is the most important letter in our alphabet?

2) One of the earlier roots of the letter E was traced in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph. Other than the E sound, what did this hieroglyph represent?

3) When the same hieroglyph evolved into Phoenician, what did the Phoenicians call this letter?

4) Why did the Greeks consider this Phoenician letter as a problem character?

5) How did the Greeks solve this problem?

6) What is the Greek name of the final version of the letter E?

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E-resistible E!

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DL
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“Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.” 
-- Steven Redhead, The Solution

The Letter D

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This feature is all about D.  I'm D-lighted to share it. ;-)

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"D"

1) The Egyptians used the symbol for a hand to represent the  phonetic sound of D.  What did they call this hand symbol?

2) The Phoenicians used the symbol for a tent door to represent the phonetic sound of D. What did they call this door symbol?

3) What did the Greek call their character for the phonetic D sound?

4) Who softened the angular Greek version of the letter D?

5) Who refined the letter D that we use today?

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D-lightful D!

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DL
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“Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.” 
-- Steven Redhead, The Solution

The Letter C

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This feature is all about C.  You'll C what I mean. ;-)

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"C"

1) Letters C and G evolved from the same Phoenician letter. What did the Phoenicians call this letter?

2)This same Phoenician letter was named after which animal?

3)Where did the design of the curvy letter C come from?

4)Who formed the letter G to differ from the letter C?

5) True or False: Letter C is the first letter in our alphabet that share the same design for both capital and lowercase.

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Clever C!

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DL
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“Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.” 
-- Steven Redhead, The Solution

The Letter B

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This feature is all about B.  Not the big B on the flowers. ;-)

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"B"

1)The evolution of the letter B was from an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph. Since a hieroglyph is a writing in form of images what does this hieroglyph signify?

2)After the same Egyptian hieroglyph evolved into a Phoenician letter, what do the Phoenicians call this letter?

3)In reference to the answer of question #2: If the same Phoenician letter was named from a Phoenician word, what does that word mean?

4)When the same Phoenician letter evolved into a Greek letter, what do the Greeks call this letter?

5)When the same Greek letter evolved into Roman letter, what do the Romans call this letter?

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Bodacious B!

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DL
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“Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.” 
-- Steven Redhead, The Solution