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Re: names for the "English" alphabet

Subject: Re: names for the "English" alphabet
From: Joe Miller <joemiller -at- CANBERRA -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:42:28 -0500

Amy,

The "official" name of the alphabet used by all European languages
is the Roman Alphabet because that's what it was derived from. It's
even used for Finnish and Basque, which are not even Indo-European
languages.

--Joe
joemiller -at- canberra -dot- com


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