November Reader's Digest and I happened upon this article,
"The Secret Lives of Letters", by Brooke Nelson. Mr. Nelson says letters may be small characters, but there are amazing stories behind all 26 alphabet all-stars.
Remember your Angels are Watching
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
26 comments:
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Cecilia and Angel Madi
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that was interesting!!!! and to imagine how the words looked once with two "uu's" is pawsome!!! the mama hates X...probably because she always had to search for that letter in math lessons LOL
ReplyDeleteAnd I never knew this
ReplyDeleteWho knew? Not me! Love learning about the letters of the alphabet.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam
We are forever learning from you, Miss Cecilia!
ReplyDeleteHow funny about the w. In Norwegian they actually say double v and in Dutch we say 'way'. Nothing double about it at all.
ReplyDeleteKlem, Mara
Oh, now that's interesting 'cos I thought X stood fur *mawh* a licky kiss!
ReplyDeleteLoves and licky kisses
Princess Leah xxx
Cool and together they equal weather Wx!
ReplyDeleteso each time I say whhhhh sound now I will think UU... that is odd to say the least. I have enjoyed these and am sorry we are close to the end.
ReplyDeleteI love the letter x, and I didn't know that Descartes started the tradition of having it be an unknown!!! I love math so I enjoyed that tidbit.
ReplyDeleteX. (That stands in for my profound but unknown blog comment)
ReplyDeleteI've learned so much about the origins of letters. Most fascinating.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous day, Cecilia. Big hug. ♥
I think we have a lot of things to blame on those 7th century scribes!
ReplyDeleteInteresting. We never knew that. Thanks for the education!
ReplyDeleteWe have been enjoying this series on how our letters came to be. Only two left.
ReplyDeletewhoa......we saw de bak ta skewl grafix N thought we waz in big time trubull !!!
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Mom often wondered about the double uu W - very interesting. Math Mom knew that about "x". When first teaching variables to students, they have to learn to stop using the multiplication sign X so they don't get confused when side by side. We don't know anything about any of that:)
ReplyDeleteWoos - Lightning, Misty, and Timber
I had no idea. Never considered where letters came from. They've just always been there.
ReplyDeleteMore interesting things to learn about our alphabet!
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hazel & Mabel
Some day one of these letter facts is going to be on jeopardy and thanks to you I will get it!
ReplyDeleteHow cool!! That letter x really annoyed me in algebra! LOL
ReplyDeleteNo wonder mom doesn't care for the letter 'X'......hee hee.
ReplyDeleteShe likes 'W' a lot.
xoxo (a better way to use X)
Wyatt (the best way to use W )
Very interesting facts :) XO
ReplyDeleteNow I am going to want to call it double v. Let me state unequivocally that letters simply do not belong in math. I hated algebra when I took it and when both my kids took it. LOL!
ReplyDeleteDouble V makes more sense...peeps are weird.
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hehehee
Kisses,
Ruby ♥
I did not know that about the W! How interesting!
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X is the first letter of my name. I wonder if that is because I was an unknown quantity, now that I'm known, I wonder if my name will to change to something like Alice or Betsy or Candy. Candy...mmmmm. Xena
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