On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, John Cowan wrote:
> Historically, the letter shapes in the Phoenician (RTL) alphabet
> are mirror images of those in the Greek alphabet, and when Greek
> was written boustrophedon, as in Euboean inscriptions, the letters
> in the RTL portion appear mirrored, just as in Etruscan.
Sorry, but it's of course the other way round. The Greek letters
are mirror images of the Phonician (RTL) alphabet, and when
Greek was written boustrophedon, the letters in the LTR portions
were mirrored (but later became the standard shape).
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