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发信人: palio (许我三个月), 信区: English
标题: A
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年12月27日18:34:12 星期五), 站内信件

Letter "A"
The letter A gets its shape from an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph of an eagle.
The Phoenicians later named it aleph, meaning xx,� the head of which they
thought the letter resembled. The Greeks then called the letter alpha, and the
Romans gave the letter
the name we recognize: A.

The New York Public Library

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