How to pronounce “roman alphabet” in English

We lovers of the Roman alphabet are accustomed to scripts running from left to right.

But the problem was that the Roman alphabet didn't have enough symbols in it to represent all of the sounds of English.

And there was a desire at that point to use the Roman alphabet.

to devise a whole new alphabet to replace the Roman alphabet with which English is written.

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So at the time, he was restricted to the Roman alphabet and the Greek alphabet.

They are English speakers, so they're definitely influenced by English and the Roman alphabet, and they wanted to create a way to create a kind a cipher.

here, the unfilled spaces at the right hand edge of many paragraphs would tell him instantly that the Roman alphabet runs from left to right.