| Show THE TH E A B GS CS W is simply double U no distinction being formerly made in the shape of the U and V in some languages it is called double vee C is the third letter in all alphabets derived from the greek and roman but with the ancients ancient it is believed to have had the sound of G twelve letters of our oar alphabet were borrowed from the phoenicians Phoenicia ns and are still pronounced in m exactly the same way that they were over years ago ta U and V were wem until years ago the same letter interchangeable the Iffe hebrew brew name for the letter V is vay a hook the significance of the name be irig obvious Q is the tailed letter from the french queue a tail it is an 0 with a tail the handwritings most in vogue in europe making this letter like an 0 with a small curl at the bottom T was tow a grossmark cros and though a respectable ancient letter indi indicates entes by its ils simplicity that names amon gits its makers had probably become scarce when then thy were driven to so simple an expedient the letter Y was formerly called the Sai niazi letter etter tt it was used by b pythagoras as an emblom of the narrow path of virtue which if deviated from the further the lines line extended and the wider the breach the letter E in old phoenician manuscript had a name which in our cur language signifies window the letter as originally ra raide made ide bore a strong resemblance to the window of a house bonse the hebrew narrie name was he a window |
