May 2020 Week 3 -The Letter Z Was Removed from the Alphabet for 200 Years

Post date: May 21, 2020 6:59:15 PM

It's hard to imagine an alphabet that doesn't include A, Z, and every other letter in between. However, around 300 BC, the Roman censor Appius Claudius Caecus had Z removed from the alphabet due to the fact that it wasn't used that much. The letter S was also nixed and the letter G was added. It took another 200 years for Z to make its way back to the end of the alphabet.