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(hand), kaph (palm of hand), lamed (whip), } nun (fish), samek (post), ‘ayin ‘ow pe (mouth), sade (fishing (teeth) and taw (mark).

guttural sounds.)

"There hind been earlier writing systems, notably the Sumerian cuneiform or w seript and the Egyptian but these unwieldy. Each sign stood for the sound of a whole word, or part of a word, Remembering the hundreds of signs called for a feat of

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‘The Phoenicians and their wheeler-dealer neighbors,

They carried the Greek alphabet with them. i

‘The Romans learned the alpliabet from them. And just as the Greeks tinkered with the Semitic letters to suit their ‘own language, so the Romans changed the Greek until they ended up with an alphabet of 23 letters.

The Romans also changed the shape of the letters, substituting curves for some of the’angular forms. In their hands, for instance, the triangular Greek delta become the D, shaped like a strung bow.

As the legions swept through many lands, the alphabet

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through Asia to India. GREEKS ADOPT IT

By perhaps 1100 BC, the Greeks, who carried on an active trade with the Phoenicians, had adopted a set of signs close to the Phoenician. But they found the lack of yowel sounds awkward,

In the Semetic language of the Phoenicians, meaning depended mostly on consonants. In Greek, the vowels were

incense, copper, cedarw: i or pes from nearby Egypt and, far-away Britain. and India,

. By 1500 BC; a more practical writing system ‘had developed, perhaps in what is now Syria; the alphabet, A single sign stood for each sound in a word. Fewer than 30 signs were needed.

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Instead of having to remember the symbol for wheat, a businessman could string together letters, just as we do today: w-h-e-a-t. But with one important difference. The alphabet consisted of consonants — no vowels. So instead of

Female athletes still trail men

WATERLOO, ONT. (CP) — Despite progress over the last decade, women have yet to even the score with men in sports, says a sociologist at the University of Waterloo.

Male athletes continue to dominate sports at the pro- fessional and amateur level, says Nancy Theberge, who teaches in the university's kinesiology department.

Business Tops Of the 1,151 periodicals counted in the country in 1984 by Statistics Canada, 266 dealt with religion, 173 with business and 72 with agriculture.

The key to real change in participation will be equity in funding of women’s and men’s sports, she said.

While there has been in- creased prestige and cred- bility for elite women ama- teurs and some commercial backing for pro athletes in tennis and golf, Theberge said those gains have been accompanied by other dis- turbing trends.

Currently, there seems to be an emphasis on developing “feminine” sports that rely on esthetics, such as gym- nasties, figure skating and synchronized swimming, she said.

important.

Eventually the Greeks adopted 19 letters of the Phoenician alphabet, changed others to vowels and added a few new characters, winding up with a serviceable alphabet of 24 letters.

spread with them.

Capital letters were the only forms used for hundreds of - years. And the letters J, U and W, which the Romans never 9” had, were added much later, giving us our alphabet of 26

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TV'S GOPHER A FRESHMAN POLITICIAN

By SANDY JOHNSON Associated Press

WASHINGTON — As Representative Fred Grandy of Iowa clratted with his colleagues before a recent hearing in the House of Representatives, one man in the audience turned to another and whispered, “There he is. That's Gopher.”

Told the story a few days later, Grandy laughs. Even in his congressional uniform of blue suit and red tie, he had been recognized as.Gopher Smith, the affable, bumbling character that Grandy portgayed for a decade on TV's Love Boat.

Grandy is living another role now, that of Mr. Smith goes to the h politician trying to Jearn the ways of Congress. But he doesn't mind if Gopher comes along, convinced that his celebrity status is an asset.

“I always took the position that if I could just get people's attention, I'd be fine,” he said. “If I didn't abuse my celebrity status, rely on it too heavily, it'd be a tremendous asset.”

The new Republican congressman from northwest Iowa has immersed himself in the matters of concern to his constituents — catastrophic illness, parental leave and grass:compliance of oats’ —. “burning issues”. in. his

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Grandy was sworn in as.a member of the 100th Congress in January, one of a freshman class of 50. His celebrity made him stand out from the freshman crowd, along with Joseph P. Kennedy III of Massachusetts and Washington Bullets forward Tom McMillen of Maryland.

Gopher Smith has got Fred Grandy a few breaks.

He was one of six freshmen invited to the annual Salute to Congress dinner, a quintessential Washington insider roast that is the journalists’ answer to the Emmy awards ceremony.

Grandy won the two committees of his choice: agriculture as well as education and labor. But these are hardly the glamorous posts on Capitol Hill; when he made his preferences known to the GOP leaders, one was incredulous that he wasn’t seeking the plum foreign affairs committee.

“Of course you know foreign affairs is the real Love Boat of Congress,” Grandy said.

He spent a lot of time in the rural villages that dot the Iowa landscape last year, overcoming the Gopher stereotype. Born in Sioux City, educated at exclusive Exeter and Harvard, he whetted an appetite for polities on the staff of former representative Wiley Mayne. Then he turned to acting, first the theatre and then television, where for 10 years he was the Love Boat purser.

Though the show made him secure financially, he grew bored and went home to run for Congress. Though he had an dingly high name i much of it was negative, and it took months of one-on-one campaiging to turn around his image. He squeaked by in the November election, winning 51 per cént of the vote.

So now he is U.S. Representative Grandy, content to wait outthe memories of Gopher, however long it might take. And that might‘be a while.

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HALIFAX (CP) — Eating in a restaurant usually means mulling over mouth-watering descriptions ‘printed on a menu.

For a blind person, how- ever, choosing a restaurant meal can mean relying on others to read the bill of fare.

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CROWN LAND FOR SALE BY AUCTION

The Ministry of Forests and Lands will sell by auction the following property:

Location: 5 km south west of Slocan City

Legally described as: Newly surveyed portions of Lots 3 and 4, District Lot 381, Kootenay District, Plan 725, being approximately 17 hectares + (43 Acres).

The auction will be held on March 27, 1987, at 1:30 p.m. at: The Silvery Slocan Social Centre in the Village of Slocan, B.C.

The successful bidder will be required to pay at the auction a deposit of $4,000.00.

Purchase documents and terms and conditions of the sale may be obtained from the Office of the Regional Land Manager at the following ad- dress

Ministry of Forests and Lands Lands Division, Kootenay Region 828A Baker Street, Cranbrook, B.C. VIC 1A2 Contact: Robert Guenther, phone 426-1414. Ministry of Forests and Lands

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