the origin of the letter 🇦
(from the documentary The Odyssey of the Writing, 2020)
Documentary is called “The Secret History of Writing” done by BBC
this has always fascinated me. I first learned it about 25 years ago, and ever since, every time I see a capital letter A a tiny voice inside me goes “bull!”
Fun to see an actual scholarly version of this, because I first read it as explained (-ish) by one of Kipling’s “Just So Stories” a very, very long time ago…