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Wow, I can’t believe I never put that together before.
No, it’s named after the cereal
Pretty much. English borrowed it from Latin because it’s posh. And Latin borrowed it from Greek because it’s posh. But at the end of the day it’s in the same spirit as “the ABC”, or Latin “abecedarius”.
It’s also “ABC” (“ábécé”) in Hungarian. (And I bet in a lot of other languages too.)
I never thought of it before, but it is a conjunction of those first two Greek letters. Or else, it’s named after the soup it resembles.
Similarly, the viking rune “alphabet” is called the Futhark, because the first letters are pronounced F, U, Þ, A, R, K.
Yeah