The English “H,” for example, ... The earliest example of the Latin alphabet in use is called the duenos inscription and comes from the sixth century BCE, 2,500 years ago.

In time, the Etruscans on the Italian Peninsula learned to do the same, then bequeathed the practice to the nascent Roman Empire. The result was the Latin alphabet, which has achieved global ...

Because the Latin alphabet did not have a letter to represent the sound /w/ in Old English, 7th-century scribes just wrote it as ‘uu.’ The double-u symbol eventually meshed together to form ...

Old English (that is, English as it was spoken between 400 and about 1100 AD) was written using an adapted Latin alphabet introduced by Christian missionaries, write Jonathan Slocum and Winfred P ...

Stemming from Old English, we know that the concept of the “w” sound and letter ran into problems when being converted into the ancient Roman alphabet. This Latin alphabet was then forced to ...