Martha wrote: >The Latin alphabet had characters that fit very, very well with Latin >phonology. The Greek alphabet matched Greek phonology too. The >problem came when the Latin alphabet began to be used for languages >like Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and others which had sounds that Latin >didn't have - like th (both varieties) and gh (still pronounced) or >ich (used to be in English, still is in German).
I like this explanation - thanks, Martha. Isn't (aren't?) linguistics fascinating? BFN, Margery. ============================================ [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK ============================================ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]