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Because of the borrowing of words from other languages, the new work will add five letters-J, K, W, X and Y-that have not been part of the formal Italian alphabet. It will cost about $5,000,000, fill 20 volumes, each 1,000 pages thick. It is all a labor of love for the academy's dynamic President Giacomo Devoto, who at 67 is not likely to live much beyond the publication of Volume I, scheduled...
...Every alphabet's archaic...
...bomb, the split, the UN, Vietnam--every day we are reminded that one quarter of the world's population lives in a nation that is not recognized by ours, eats with chopsticks, and does not use an alphabet...
...order, the Ottoman sultanate was abolished, the Moslem religion disestablished. The fez was outlawed, and the schools, the courts and the institution of marriage were freed from the control of the mullahs. Women won the right to vote, hold jobs, own property. Polygamy and the veil were eliminated. The alphabet was Romanized and names were Westernized-Mustafa Kemal took the opportunity to call himself Kemal Atatürk (Father of the Turks...
...writing -a trip that all but the few that still use ideograms, like Chinese, owe to the Semitic tribes who traded with Athens 27 centuries ago. The Semites had a phonetic script so much more resourceful than the Greeks' own that it was promptly adopted. From Greece this alphabet spread to Rome, and from there Rome's conquering legions took it all over Europe, including England...