C for Cookie Monster. C comes from the same letter as G. The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name gimel. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal.

• SA Letter I Puzzle 1.0
  I (named i, plural ies) is the ninth letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. n Semitic, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a...

• RA Letter H Puzzle 1.0
  H (named aitch, plural aitches, or haitch) is the eighth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet

• AP Letter D Puzzle 1.0
  The Semitic letter Dƒlet may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek, and Latin, the letter represented /d/ - in the Etruscan alphabet the...

• AS Letter K Puzzle 1.0
  Did you know that In English, the letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive; this sound is also transcribed by /k/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA

• AS Letter E Puzzle 1.0
  E is a vowel and the fifth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. E differs little from its derivational source, the Greek letter epsilon. In etymology, the Semitic hˆ has been suggested to have started as a...

• CA Letter F Puzzle 1.0
  The origin of f is the Semitic letter vƒv (or waw) that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/

• OJP Letter F Puzzle 1.0
  The origin of f is the Semitic letter vƒv (or waw) that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/. Graphically, it originally probably depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph, such as that which...