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Showing posts with label Alphabet Coloring Indexes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alphabet Coloring Indexes. Show all posts
Thursday, June 2, 2016

The Story of The Alphabet

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D o you know your A B C's? Each Letter Character Has a History and a Reason For Its Present Form ? Have you Ever Questioned Origin and...

The Letter "A" is for armadillo, aprons, acorns and apples

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A stands for Ape, for Arthur and Air.        Why is A the first letter? It represents one of the commonest vowel sounds in ancient lan...

The Letter "B" is for: beach, beaver, burros, bat, babies, barns , bears , bluejay, banana, balloons and bunnies

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B stands for Bullock, for Bird, and for Bear.        The second letter of the alphabet represents a crude house, roughly outlined. Aft...

The Letter "C" is for: celebrating, carrots, cat, chair, chick, cow, candle and conversation

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C stands for Cat, for Charles and for Cry.        The "ship of the desert," the camel, gave its name to the third letter. Ou...

The Letter "D" is for: dance, disciples, drink, duck, daisy, drawers, doll and dandelion

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D stands for Duck, Doris and Drummer.        The next letter D, came from a representation of a door - "daleth" (dahleth). I...

The Letter "E" is for Eskimos and elephants

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       The house picture gave us B, the door, D, and the window, E. "He" (hay) meant to look, to see, or window, and one write...

The Letter "F" is for: fox, feathers, folding, freshly, frog, farmer, fire engine, fairy and fish

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F stands for Fish, for Francis and Feel        Our letter order does not agree with that of the Phoenicians or the early Greeks. Our s...

The Letter "G" is for: glasses, giant, geese, garbage, grapefruit, gingerbread, gossip and gardener

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G stands for Goat, for Great and for Good.        The "ship of the desert," the camel, gave its name to the third letter. Ou...

The Letter "H" is for: hearing, hat, house, horse and hare

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H stands for Hog, for Harry and Hood        Two fence posts and three horizontal boards gave us our eighth letter, H. The fence was c...

The Letter "I" is for iceskates, iron and igloo

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I stands for Inn, Ivanhoe and Igloo.        The parts of the human body also played an important part in giving form to the letters of...

The Letter "J" is for jungle, jigsaw puzzle, jacket, jack-in-the-box, Jack and Jill

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J stands for Judge, for Jack and for Jill.        The parts of the human body also played an important part in giving form to the lette...

The Letter "K" is for king and kites

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K stands for King, for Kate, and for Kill.        The silhouette of the open hand, with its radiating lines, discloses the origin of th...

the Letter "L" is for lantern, laugh, lost time, and lemur

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L stands for Lion, for Lawyer, and Land.        The ox goad or whip lash, "lamed" (lah' med) gave rise to the next letter...

The Letter "M" is for music and market

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M stands for Magpie, for Martha and Mend.        The Phoenicians were lovers of the sea, and from this source two letters were derived...

The Letter "N" is for nest and native

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N stands for Nag, for Nanny, and Notes.        The Phoenicians were lovers of the sea, and from this source two letters were derived, M...