The Evolution of the Latin Alphabet

[Tarquinius]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgwsxP-EQ08

 

[JayGoptri]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgwsxP-EQ08

It's interesting to learn more about this sort of thing from time to time.

Would be better if youngcels here were interested in this sort of conversation instead of trying to rate their faces by asking other men how they look etc.

 

[YuiStillMyCope]

 

[YuiStillMyCope]

also brutal noreplypill

 

[YuiStillMyCope]

Fun alphabet fact: & is supposed to be a cursive ‘et’, which Latin for ‘and’. It’s called ampersand. I’m gonna paste something I read about it:

The story of why it is called an ampersand is intriguing. The ampersand was originally part of the English language. It was the 27th letter and its place was after the z. In the 1800s, school children chanting out the alphabet would include it; but because chanting "x, y, z, and" would sound strange, it was important to indicate that the "and" stood on its own. In order to do so, the phrase "per se" (meaning "on its own") was added. So they would chant "x, y, z, and per se and". Over time, "and per se and" blurred into "ampersand" which is its name today.

 

[Tarquinius]

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Fun alphabet fact: & is supposed to be a cursive ‘et’, which Latin for ‘and’. It’s called ampersand. I’m gonna paste something I read about it:

The story of why it is called an ampersand is intriguing. The ampersand was originally part of the English language. It was the 27th letter and its place was after the z. In the 1800s, school children chanting out the alphabet would include it; but because chanting "x, y, z, and" would sound strange, it was important to indicate that the "and" stood on its own. In order to do so, the phrase "per se" (meaning "on its own") was added. So they would chant "x, y, z, and per se and". Over time, "and per se and" blurred into "ampersand" which is its name today.

Ye, the same happened to other letters gradually. Pretty cool.