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As English learners, we have the alphabet clearly in our mind, in order, from a very young age. You can say the ABCs 1 rapid speed and some people can even say them backwards without 2 (think)about it. We certainly can't imagine the alphabet being in any other order. but how did the order we know today come to be?
There’s 3 (real) not an easy answer. No one woke up and decided to put the 4 (letter )in that order, the alphabet 5 (evolve)slowly over a long period of time to become 6 it is today. Our alphabet can date back to ancient Egypt. This first alphabet 7 (improve)by the Phoenicians around1000 BC, 8 (early)than the Greeks by 200 years, and we have them to thank for vowels (元音 ) From Greece, our alphabet traveled to Rome, and the Romans turned 9 into the“modern”alphabet, with letters we recognize today.
So why that order? While we don’t know for sure. some scholars assumed that the order came from memory cells in our brains meant 10 (help)people remember it-some kind of sentence where each letter became a full word, like the technique you used in school to remember the order of the planets.