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originated from the Greek letter beta and the Phoenician beth. According to Robert Graves the ancient Irish Ogham alphabet, called the Beth-luis-nion, began with the letter B and was paired with the idea of inception. Interestingly, the ancient Semitic letter beth had multiple meanings, among which were house, temple, daughter, woman, and place.
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BICAMERAL A bicameral alphabet is two alphabets joined. The modern Latin alphabet, which you are reading, is an example. It has an upper and a lower case, as closely linked and yet as eay to distingusih as the Seante and the House of Representatives. Unicameral alphabets (the Arabic, Hebrew and Devanagari alphabets, for example) have only one case. Tricameral alphabets have three „ and a normal font of roman type can be described as tricameral, if you distinguish the upper case, lower case and small caps.
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