Benjamin Franklin, along with advocating for the t... ...he United States, also proposed a new, simplified alphabet . Franklin came up with it in 1768, and Noah Webst... ...each letter. Franklin was confident that his new alphabet would easier to learn and, once learned, would dr... ...He believed any diffic...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/15/Benjamin-Franklins-Phonetic-Alphabet/
[http://vimeo.com/52346538] (vimeo link)Video arti... .../vimeo.com/52346538] (vimeo link)Video artist and alphabet nerd Evan Seitz has another quiz, this time featu... ...ou name? -via Daily of the DaySee more of Seitz's alphabet quizzes.
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/29/Alphagames/
The Pageant of Letters was a Greek comedy about th... ...e Pageant of Letters was a Greek comedy about the alphabet from about 400 BCE. The premise of the play was t... ...xi, psi, and omega) were being added to the Greek alphabet , and some folks were resistant to the change, oth...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/23/The-Pageant-of-Letters/