andrewruhren22Apr 4, 2022The crazy confusing CThe C evolved from the Phoenician and Hebrew gimels. The Greeks reversed it also and used it for the hard G sound. Even after the G was...
andrewruhren22Apr 4, 2022A gruesome gangland hit in GThis still cracks me up. It came together as I was making the word list for G. Girl Scouts and gingerbread men went together quite...
andrewruhren22Apr 3, 2022The little used B enjoys being secondYeah the Greek beta was a flipped Phoenician beta which meant house, which probably came from a hieroglyph that meant house but what what...
andrewruhren22Apr 3, 2022An Eland Eating an Egyptian MummyI just love this little embalmed guy an I still feel such empathy for his ennui. It's probably one of those little things that no one...
andrewruhren22Apr 2, 2022An A to start it offA may have begun as an Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox head. The first letter of the Phoenician alphabet looks like an A laying on its left...