David Sacks Boeken

David Sacks presents an entertaining and informative piece of linguistic and cultural archaeology which unlocks the mysteries of the 26 letters which comprise the English alphabet and also charts the histories of alphabets around the world, as well as of Chinese and Japanese ideograms.

There is a story behind each letter of the alphabet. While China and Japan rely mainly on scripts of ideograms, three-quarters of humanity uses some kind of alphabet. Why is the X the Unknown or shorthand for a Kiss? Which letter came last, historically, in the alphabet? This book provides answers to these and other questions.