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And they developed an alphabet that evolved into the Roman letters used throughout Western civilization today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
“CoComelon” is Moonbug’s flagship preschool show, and the series’ origins date back to 2006 when commercial director Jay Jeon shared a YouTube video of an alphabet cartoon set to music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
"I can make out all the letters of the alphabet, even the smallest ones," he marvelled, pointing to his phone screen.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Now he's taken that alphabet and turned it into a certified Eurovision banger.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
He couldn't spell his sister's name, but that was because she had a name that was longer than the whole alphabet.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The database includes misspellings, mixed alphabets, and coded inscriptions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
So the Shakespeare skeptics were convinced that by looking closely at the letters used to spell each word in Shakespeare’s works, they could make out two different alphabets and uncover a code from Francis Bacon.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
Above the stage, “Elvis” was spelled out in different alphabets, and there were flashing lights that presented an image of him swiveling with a guitar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
Surrounded by alphabets he could not understand, he instead independently reinvented a syllabary, unaware that the Minoans of Crete had already invented another syllabary 3,500 years previously.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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