The Greek Alphabet - A History of the Letter C

The story of the letter c will help you see how sound changes throughout history affect the sometimes quirky rules we have in modern english. The greeks borrowed the alphabet from the phoenicians who lived in and around modern day lebanon and syria, very early in the first millennium b c. Now shift forward a few centuries to the romans. By the time the romans adopted the greek alphabet directly from the etruscans, as you may recall, the sound of the third letter had eventually shifted from the g sound to the k sound. Some linguists think that this change occurred because the etrusCans, who were the intermediaries here, they took the