CHAPTER X.

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET.

256. Bearings of the question 200 257. Phoenician Period 200 258, 259. Greek Period 201-203 260-262. Latin Period 203-205 263. The Moeso-Gothic alphabet 205 264. The Anglo-Saxon alphabet 205 265. The Anglo-Norman Period 207 266. Extract from the Ormulum 208 267. The _Runes_ 209 268. The order of the alphabet 210 269. Parallel and equivalent orthographies 213