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Alphabet: the house of the ox made of bricks

13 jun 2019

Alphabet: the house of the ox made of bricks

An alphabet is a standard set of letters (graphemes) that represent the phonemes (basic significant sounds) of a spoken language. The alphabet is a lot like a set of bricks.

Of the dozens of alphabets in use today, the most popular is the Latin alphabet, which was derived from the Greek, and which many languages modify by adding letters formed using diacritical marks.

The English word ‘alphabet’ came into English from the Latin word ‘alphabetum’, which originated from the Greek ‘ἀλφάβητος’ (alphabētos), which came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet: aleph, meaning ox, and bet, meaning house.

You can stack up bricks to make buildings. Then you can put the buildings together to make cities. You can build just about anything with a set of bricks. All you need is your imagination.

You put letters together to make words. Then, you put words together to invent sentences. Then, you put sentences together to create paragraphs. There you go, now you can create stories but, as bricks and blocks, before starting speaking you need a plan and a set pf skills build a meaningful city.

As a language student, you start as a bricklayer or a construction worker, and can study your way up to become an architect or an engineer of your own speech. Besides having bricks, you need cement (prepositions, commas, adverbs) and tools (grammar rules and other elements) to make your build have a purpose.

Alphabet: the house of the ox made of bricks

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