Andrew on Nostr: Fun fact: the prefix/suffix “-phon-“ (ie: phonetics, phonograph, telephone, etc) ...

Fun fact: the prefix/suffix “-phon-“ (ie: phonetics, phonograph, telephone, etc) comes from Greek, meaning “sound; voice”.

The word came from the Greeks paying homage to the Phoenician (modern day Lebanon) alphabet that their alphabet was based on.

Phoenician alphabet was in turn a modified/simplified version of Egyptian hieroglyphs that they developed as laborers in Egypt.