The Story of th English letter of "A” What if I told you… the letter “A” started as a picture of an ox’s head? Yeah this simple shape you write every day… is over 3,800 years old. Let’s rewind to ancient Egypt. Early humans didn’t write letters they drew symbols. One of those symbols looked like an ox head 🐂with horns. This symbol evolved into something called. “Aleph”, a Semitic letter meaning “ox.” Back then, it didn’t even represent a vowel. It was a "glottal stop" basically a tiny pause in sound. So originally… “A” wasn’t even the “A” sound! Then came the Phoenicians master traders of the ancient world. They simplified the ox symbol into a more abstract shape. Here’s the crazy part: If you flip the modern “A” upside down… you can still see the horns of that ox. Later, the Greeks borrowed this symbol… but they changed everything. They turned “Aleph” into “Alpha”, And for the first time it became a true vowel...
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