Alphabetical

ALPHABETICAL takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in 26 vivid chapters, fizzing with anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how codes and nonsense poems work, p [...]
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ALPHABETICAL takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in 26 vivid chapters, fizzing with anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how codes and nonsense poems work, pins down the strange story of OK, traces our three lost letters and tackles the tyranny of spelling, amongst many, many other things.