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Show Lip Pronunciation Korms of the letters in a recently discovered old Phoenician alphabet show evidences of having been chosen to represent the forms of the mouth used in speaking them. This theory is advanced by Sir Richard Paget, an authority on human speech, who finds I hat nearly every one of the twenty-nine twenty-nine symbols used is suggestive of the lip formation to produce the sound symbolized. He does not suggest that I lie scribe who selected the mouthlike characters did so intentionally, but believes be-lieves instead that the forms were chosen unconsciously. The letter "P," for instance, is represented by a sigu suggestive of the closed lips used at the start of pronouncing it. Popular Mechanics Magazine. |