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This "Evolution of the English Alphabet" chart is very nifty. I had no idea that every non-symmetric letter in the Roman alphabet got mirrored at some point.
@Terrana the Phoenician alphabet (just like many of its descendants: Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic etc) was written right-to-left, so the letters "pointed" left
early Greek (with alphabet based on Phoenician) and Latin inscriptions still used right-to-left, boustraphedon (right-left-right-left-...), or whatever-direction-the-writer-feels-like, with letters always pointing forward
so the letters didn't flip per se, the writing direction did
@kiilas Oho! That actually makes perfect sense.
