In my pondering of letters this morning, it occured to me to google "The History of the Letter B"...I had no idea our letters had such storied pasts!!!!
Per Wikipedia..."The letter B might have started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet. By 1050 BC, the Phoenician alphabet's letter had a linear form that served as the beth." Who knew??
If you go to Learner.org you can hear a bunch of different audio files of pronunciations.
And, of course, it is hard to resist checking out The Devil's Dictionary" to see what entries they have for words starting with B. My favorite, Baptism which they explain as "a quick, pleasant dip in the church pool, with some long, dry consequences forthcoming; e.g., the sermon which follows."
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