The Alphabet
Next it spread to Greece where they too adopted it, creating new sounds and names and letters. Because of the Greek name alpha; that's how the name "Alphabet" came into place, and stayed. They also came up with mnemonic devices which are often taught to young children in order form them to learn the modern day alphabet. e.g. "A" is for "Apple", and "B" is for "Boy" these are considered mnemonic devices because the letter is the same letter as the word and it's meant to help children remember them.
When Greeks adopted the alphabet they realized that they didn't need all of the letters shown to them by the Phoenician's so they discarded the useless ones and kept what worked best for them, and added some new ones to the end. They also replaced others with vowels. As well as deciding that in writing it will go from left to right always, which is a rule we still stick to .
Then changes again were made to the alphabet during the middle ages. The final product which is the modern alphabet with 26 letters that we know today was established around the 17th Century.
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