21 August 2011
James Clackson, senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge, narrates an audio slideshow on how we got our alphabet.
(Tip o’ the hat to Matt Schneider.)
Bayeux Tapestry detail: Coronation of Harold, created by Myrabella, 2013, used under Creative Commons license
The text of Wordorigins.org by David Wilton is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License