Welcome to the History of English Podcasts, a podcast about the history of the English

language.

This time I'm going to explore the beginning of the Greek alphabet, which is ultimately

the same alphabet we used today.

But before I begin, let me mention a couple of things about the alphabet and this podcast

series.

Obviously, the story of the alphabet is part of the story of English.

And my general approach here is to discuss the development and the evolution of the alphabet

as I move forward with the story of English.

So it isn't really my intention to tell the entire story of the alphabet in one episode

or even a series of episodes because the development of the alphabet spans the entire

scope of this podcast.

But a few listeners have asked that I spend some time on the history of the alphabet

and explore the history of all the letters, the way I did with the history of the letter

C in an earlier episode.

So I've decided to do just that.

But to tell the entire story of the alphabet, it would take several episodes.

So I'm in the process of preparing a series of episodes related to the entire history

of the alphabet and the letters which we used today.

And these episodes will be separate from this podcast series and they'll include some

of the information which I cover in this series as well as lots of information that's

not covered here.

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