March 20, 2005
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MORE SCHOOL DAYS: Sitting here in class watching the students working furiously at homework. I have Brian with me again (the guy who always asked to go to McDs but first must answer the unanswerable question of the day. I tell everyone that Brian failed last year's study hall and that's why he's back with me again. Brian and I have an interesting little competition: we both try to outsmart the other. He knows some difficult logic problems that are taxing... while I stick to trivial knowledge. Today's question: What's the oldest letter in the English Alphabet? [Here's a hint: it was used by the Egyptians in 3000 b.c.] Poor Brian actually guessed the correct letter but changed his mind before I could say correct. So as I look over to see him playing with his graphing calculator he kicks himself every couple of minutes... its nice to have the power!
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Will
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cruel will. tisk...
Ah, delorean is dead. That's sad, b/c I heard he was a crack addict.
O is oldest, but also variations of A, B, and M are also speculated to exist in Egyptian writing.
J is newest letter. Thank you, Dr. Williams and "History and Structure of English Language" class. Boy, was that hard. We had to learn old English from three different time periods.
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