The Shaping of Our Alphabet: A Study of Changing Type StylesKnopf, 1955 - 228 pages |
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... sound symbols and adapted them to the sound values of their own language ; and that in the course of a few centuries the spreading use of these symbols evolved into the Phoenician alphabet . Some of the Phoenician letters might also ...
... sound symbols and adapted them to the sound values of their own language ; and that in the course of a few centuries the spreading use of these symbols evolved into the Phoenician alphabet . Some of the Phoenician letters might also ...
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... sound for which the letter stands : aleph , the ox ; beth , a house ; gimel , the camel ; daleth , a door . There ... sounds of a hundred strange tongues . It is the basis of alphabets as unlike as Arabic and Russian . The Northmen , who ...
... sound for which the letter stands : aleph , the ox ; beth , a house ; gimel , the camel ; daleth , a door . There ... sounds of a hundred strange tongues . It is the basis of alphabets as unlike as Arabic and Russian . The Northmen , who ...
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... sound of the Greek phi was transferred to the disused Greek digamma in a rather roundabout way . Digamma had the sound of our w . Di- gamma , followed by h , came to be used for a sound approximating f ( wh ) , and the Etruscans used it ...
... sound of the Greek phi was transferred to the disused Greek digamma in a rather roundabout way . Digamma had the sound of our w . Di- gamma , followed by h , came to be used for a sound approximating f ( wh ) , and the Etruscans used it ...
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The Wonderful Attic | 11 |
The Word in the Beginning | 21 |
Printing and the Renaissance | 45 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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