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The early form of the N was always closely associated with water. When the sign was used by the Phoenicians more than three thousand years ago, it was called "nun" (pronounced noon), which meant fish. Before the Phoenicians, the Egyptian hieroglyph for the 'n' sound was a wavy line representing water.

Around the 10th century B.C., the Greeks began adopting parts of the Phoenician alphabet as their own. In this way, they not only acquired the shape of the Phoenician nun, they also preserved its name - to a point. Although the Phoenician character's name was meaningless to the Greeks, its initial sound became the sound that the sign represented. The Phoenician nun thus became the Greek "nu."

The squiggly nu doubtlessly upset those organized, rational Greek minds, thus obliging them to redesign the character slightly to suit their sensibilities. The Greek N passed on to the Romans and over time subtle changes were made to all the letters the Romans borrowed from the Greeks, and the N was no exception.

The true ancestor of our O was probably the symbol for an eye, complete with a center dot for the pupil. The symbol for eye, "ayin" (pronounced "eye-in") appears among the Phoenician and other Semitic languages around 1000 B.C.

The Greeks adapted the ayin to their communication system and used it to represent the short vowel sound of 'o.' The Greeks also changed the name of the letter to Omicron. (The Omega is another Greek O, which they invented to represent the long 'o' sound.) While the Phoenicians and the Greeks drew the letter as a true, nearly perfect circle, the Romans condensed the shape slightly to be more in keeping with their other monumental capitals.

In the Phoenician alphabet, the symbol of a mouth represented the sound of its Phoenician name, "pe." The Phoenician P actually had two forms. One had a rounded shape that looked a little like an upside-down J, and the other was a more angular form derived from a Sumerian symbol. The Greeks borrowed the sign from the Phoenicians, but here things get a little confusing. What looks like our P in the Greek language was actually their symbol for the 'r' sound, while their 'p' sound was represented by a more geometric, asymmetrical shape. This character was then further modified, and as the Greeks were compelled to do, made symmetrical. The final outcome was the sign they called Pi.

The Romans inherited their more rounded P, which looked much like the earlier Phoenician sign, through the Etruscans. In time the Romans turned the letter around and, in the process, developed the monumental P that is the prototype of all forms of our letter.

The original ancestor of our Q was called "ooph," the Phoenician word for monkey. The ooph represented an emphatic guttural sound not found in English, or in any Indo-European language. Most historians believe that the ooph, which also went by the name "gogh," originated in the Phoenician language, with no lineage to previous written forms. Historians also believe that the character's shape depicted the back view of a person's head, with the tail representing the neck or throat.

The Greeks adopted the ooph, but found it difficult to pronounce, and changed it slightly to "koppa." The Greeks also modified the design by stopping the vertical stroke, or tail, at the outside of the circle. The koppa, however, represented virtually the same sound as "kappa," another Greek letter. One of them had to go, and koppa was ultimately the loser, perhaps because it had begun to look much like another Greek letter, the P. Unlike the Greeks, the Etruscans could live with the somewhat redundant nature of the koppa, and continued to use the letter. In fact, they had two other k-sound letters to contend with. The Romans elected to use all three signs when they adopted much of the Etruscan alphabet. The first Roman Q had the Etruscan vertical tail, but over time it evolved into the graceful curved shape that cradles the U which usually follows it.

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