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The word "Alphabet" came from Greece. If you look at The Ancient Greece's Alphabet it looks like ours. That's because America copied it! Ancient Greece called "Alphabet", "Alphabeta". They called that because Alpha was the 1st letter in their Alphabet and Beta was the 2nd letter of their Alphabet.

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