Fast Facts: Oct. 6
October 6, 2010
- Phoenicians invented the world’s first phonetic alphabet in 2000 B.C.
- The five most frequently used letters of the alphabet, in order: e, t, o, a, and n.
- Quotation marks are the youngest punctuation marks in the English language.
- “”Q”” is the only letter of the alphabet that doesn’t occur in the name of any state.
- There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
- More words start with the letter “”s”” than any other letter.
- The oldest letter of the alphabet is “”o.”” It’s more than 3,000 years old.
