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Alphabet

/ˈælfəbɛt/

The set of letters used to write a language.

The Greek roots

ἄλφα
álpha
first letter A
+
βῆτα
bêta
second letter B

Literally: alpha-beta

The story of the word

Stitch together the names of the first two Greek letters and you get the word for the whole ordered set of them.

The same roots elsewhere

Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.

In a sentence

Children learn the alphabet before they learn to read.

Built on the same root

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