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The English Alphabet came from the Roman Alphabet. The Roman Alphabet was derived from the Greek alphabet but was modified because some Latin sounds are different from Greek Sounds. Greek does not have a C sound. Latin has a W. Koine Greek does not but Doric Greek does. Still, no one knows just who modified the Greek Alphabet to make it suitable for Latin.

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