English Alphabet quiz

More questions about English Alphabet

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1. 1 Easy

   Which script was used in early England before the Latin alphabet?

   Answer: Runes

   Why: The Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet is called the Futhorc, named after the sounds of its first six letters.

2. 2 Medium

   Why is the letter O a circle shape?

   Answer: Egyptian eye symbol

   Why: The Phoenician sign was literally a drawing of the thing it named, and the Greeks kept the outline while dropping the pupil.

3. 3 Hard

   Which letter did the Romans once remove for being useless?

   Answer: Z

   Why: The story rests on a single source written some seven hundred years after the fact, so treat it as tradition rather than record.

4. 4 Easy

   Why was the letter H called aitch in English?

   Answer: Old French influence

   Why: The name travelled through Old French ache from a presumed Late Latin form, which is why it sounds nothing like the letter it names.

5. 5 Medium

   Which archaic letter looks like a "p" but sounds like "th"?

   Answer: Thorn

   Why: It is archaic only in English: Icelandic still uses the letter in everyday writing today.

6. 6 Hard

   Why did the Latin alphabet omit the letter W?

   Answer: V already covered the sound

   Why: The classical alphabet had only twenty-three letters, and a single sign did duty as both a vowel and a consonant.