{"id":16198,"date":"2022-09-24T21:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=16198"},"modified":"2022-09-24T21:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T19:03:52","slug":"alphabet-evolution-and-hyphens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/24\/alphabet-evolution-and-hyphens\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet evolution and hyphens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to very interesting (and very simple) web site of Paul Hsieh <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.geekpress.com\/\">GeekPress<\/a>, I want to share today with you two little gems about English scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You certainly knew that the alphabet we use (A to Z) has not always existed. You may have suspected that it was evoving in time from older scripts. Matt Baker, from <a href=\"https:\/\/usefulcharts.com\/blogs\/charts\/evolution-of-the-english-alphabet\">UsefulCharts.com<\/a>, has a very visual presentation of how our modern latin script may have evolved from proto-sinaitic (over nearly 4 thousand years). I find this properly fascinating. I can&#8217;t stop looking at that chart:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Visualizing-the-Evolution-of-the-Alphabet-600x450.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Visualizing-the-Evolution-of-the-Alphabet-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Visualizing-the-Evolution-of-the-Alphabet-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Visualizing-the-Evolution-of-the-Alphabet-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Visualizing-the-Evolution-of-the-Alphabet-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Visualizing-the-Evolution-of-the-Alphabet-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Visualizing-the-Evolution-of-the-Alphabet.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Evolution of the alphabet, thanks to Matt Baker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I probably did not know much about the <strong>hyphen<\/strong>. This little under-used (or improperly used) sign is the subject of a deep little book (\u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hyphen-Object-Lessons-Pardis-Mahdavi\/dp\/1501373900\" target=\"_blank\">Hyphen<\/a>,\u201d by Pardis Mahdavi, which came out in 2021, which I read with passion). But the original article is from the New Yorker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/comma-queen\/how-to-use-or-not-use-a-hyphen\">How to Use (or Not Use) a Hyphen<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to very interesting (and very simple) web site of Paul Hsieh GeekPress, I want to share today with you two little gems about English scripture. You certainly knew that the alphabet we use (A to Z) has not always existed. You may have suspected that it was evoving in time from older scripts. Matt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,35],"tags":[2525,2526],"class_list":["post-16198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-sciences","tag-alphabet","tag-hyphen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16202,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198\/revisions\/16202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}