The Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is the first fully phonemic script. Thus the Phoenician alphabet is considered to be the first alphabet. - Wikipedia*
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Singing The Alphabet Song with my granddaughter gave me an epiphany (from the Latin word epidural – meaning: knocked me out!). I realized the alphabet was invented by a Phoenician, Mr. E. Or colloquially, E.
When you are important you go by one name (Cher, Bono, Beyoncé, Hillary, Trump). If you are really important you can go by three letters (EMINEM), if you are really really important you can by two letters (Jay Z), and if you are super-duper important you can go by one letter (E). Or, for a man of his stature, Mr. E.
It became obvious Mr. E invented the alphabet after singing The Alphabet Song many many times… This is evident because he named so many letters after himself: b, c, d, e, g, p, t, v, and z. All these letters contain E – bee, cee, dee, eee, gee, pee, tee, vee, zee. And, 3 words are everyday words – bee (as in: bumble), pee (as in: gotta go…), tee (as in: golf).
Obviously, E is short for Ego.
In his alphabet Mr. E created a major triumph and a major disaster.
The triumph - the three unlikeliest letters came together to create the greatest word – joy. See detailed analysis here.
The disaster – Mr. E messed up w. Look at u, v, and w - w is a double v not a double u. Wikipedia has no answer for this.
Now you know your ABCs…
How about you? What has music taught you? Share a story!
*For a detailed analysis of Wikipedia click here.
