At 18:57 -0400 2004-08-01, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > Alphabet. A writing system in which both both consonants and vowels
>> are indicated. The most widespread and well-known example is the
>> Latin writing system. The correspondence between letters and sounds
>> may be either more or less exact. Many alphabets do not exhibit a
>> one-to-one correspondence between distinct sounds and letters or
>> groups of letters used to represent them; often this is an indication
>> of original spellings which were not changed as the language changed.
>>
>> I believe that this is accurate. Comment is invited.
>
>Good.

Thank you.

>(Do all your readers realize that language is constantly changing
>even though the spelling doesn't?)

No, probably not; that's why the definition refers to language change.
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