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It is probable that you are one of the many people who learned the English alphabet at a very young age. 

Your parents might have taught you to recite the alphabet as well as sing ‘The Alphabet Song.’ 

But the time you reach pre-school age, you know most of the letters of the English alphabet and can form simple words. 

The 26 letters of the modern English alphabet derive directly from the 24 letters of the Classical Latin alphabet .

The development of the English alphabet had influences from the Semitic, Phoenician, Greek and Roman scripts. 

It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed.

Letter K

The letter ‘K’ is an old letter, as it came from the Egyptian hieroglyphics. 

In the Semitic language, it was given the name ‘kaph’ which translated into ‘palm of the hand.’ In those times, the letter faced the other way. 

When the Greeks adopted it in 800 BC, it became ‘kappa’ and flipped to the right.