22 or 24 or 26 signs only! The alphabet may also be 
     passed from one language to another without great 
     difficulty; the same alphabet is used now for English, 
     French, Italian, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, 
     Czech, Croatian, Welsh, Finnish, Hungarian and others, 
     and has derived from the alphabet once used by the 
     ancient Hebrews, Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Greeks, 
     Etruscans and Romans.
          Thanks to the simplicity of the alphabet, writing has 
     become very common; it is no longer a more or less 
     exclusive domain of the priestly or other privileged 
     classes, as it was in Egypt, or Mesopotamia, or China. 
     Education has become largely a matter of reading and 
     writing, and is possible for all. The fact that alphabetic 
     writing has survived with relatively little change for three 
     and a half millenniums, notwithstanding the introduction