Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Learning Phonetics


Everything I learned about Phonetics I learned in Byblos. This charming ancient fishing village on the coast in Lebanon is the place where the Phoenicians invented the first phonetic alphabet. The Greeks later named the village "Book" (Byblos). So you can thank the amazing Phoenician people for the fact that you don't use hieroglyphics to type, write, tweet or text. Cool.

4 comments:

Al said...

WOU!! That wuz kul!

Anonymous said...

Al--birthplace of Ebonics..

Al said...

Oh? Am I the whipping post now? I gladly take lashes for my friend the quilter.

Anonymous said...

Sorry, Al. Just trying to have some fun. Nothing wrong with ebonics.