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March 10, 2007
The History of Writing
The pictograph for “water” pronounced nu 
became the symbol for the consonantal sound of N.; This practice of using a pictograph to stand for the first sound in the word it stood for is called acrophony and was the first step in the development of an ALPHABET or the “One Sign-One sound” system of writing.
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