From Phoenicia to Phishing: How 26 Letters Conquered, Corrupted, and Connected the Planet
The Alphabet: Twenty-Six Letters and a World of Trouble by L. M. “Ludo” Mercier, Foreign Correspondent at Large It began, as most mischief does, in the Levant. Some enterprising Phoenician merchants, bored of tallying amphorae with scratches on clay, condensed Egyptian hieroglyphs into a tidy set of squiggles that could be carved into cedar and…