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Experts believe that E the fifth letter of our alphabet – or, rather, some of the sounds it represents – were indicated some 5,000 years ago by the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for a house or courtyard. 2,000 years later the hieroglyph evolved into the Phoenician letter called “hé,” which represented, roughly, the sound of our ‘h.’

When the Greeks adopted the Phoenician writing system, they had difficulty using about half of the Phoenician letters; most of these troublesome characters were modified to bring them into sync with the Greek language. Some were altered only slightly, others drastically. A couple were dropped altogether. The Phoenician ‘hé’ was one of the problem characters. The Greeks could not pronounce the first sound of the letter name. Being pragmatic people their solution was simply to drop the part of the name that was causing the difficulty. As a result, the Phoenician ‘hé’ became ‘e’ – and thus, our most useful vowel was born.

In its earliest years, the letter that evolved into our F was an Egyptian hieroglyph that literally was a picture of a snake. This was around 3,000 B.C. Through the process of simplification over many years, the F began to lose its snakelike character, and by the time it emerged as an Egyptian hieratic form it wasn’t much more than a vertical stroke capped by a small crossbar. With a slight stretch of the imagination, it could be said to look like a nail.

This may be why the Phoenicians called the letter “waw,” a word meaning nail or hook, when they adapted the symbol for their alphabet. In its job as a waw, the character represented a semi-consonant sound, roughly pronounced as the W in the word “know.” However, at various times the waw also represented the ‘v’ and sometimes even the ‘u’ sound.

When the Greeks assimilated the Phoenician alphabet, they handled the confusing waw with typically Greek logic: they split it into two characters. One represented the semi-consonant W and the other became the forerunner of our V. (The ‘w’ sound became the Greek digamma, or double gamma, and was constructed by placing one gamma on top of another.) While the character was eventually dropped from the Greek alphabet, it was used in Etruscan language and the Romans adopted it as a symbol for the softened ‘v’ or double ‘v’ sound. Even today, the German language uses the V as an F in words like “vater,” which is pronounced “fahter.”

For much of their history, the ‘C’ and ‘G’ evolved as the same letter. The Greeks borrowed the basic Phoenician form and changed its name to gamma. They also made some dramatic changes to the letter’s appearance. At various times in ancient Greek history, the gamma looked like a one-sided arrow pointing up, an upside-down L, or a crescent moon. Throughout this time, however, the gamma always represented the same hard ‘g’ sound that it did for the Phoenicians.

The Greek form was adopted by the Etruscans and then by the Romans, where for many years it represented both the hard ‘k’ and ‘g’ sounds. This brings us to 312 B.C., when our modern G was formally introduced into the reformed Latin alphabet. The G was created to eliminate the confusion caused by one letter representing two sounds. The basic shape, which now looked like our C, was used to represent the palatalized sounds ‘s’ and ‘c,’ and a little bar was added to create the letter G, which denoted the guttural stop ‘g.’

The G took its position as the seventh letter of our alphabet, replacing the letter Z, which was considered superfluous for the writing of Latin. The ousted Z took its place at the end of the line.

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