Within these non-alphabetic writing systems, one symbol could signify a whole word, a syllable or a connecting word such as an adjective and therefore these systems had hundreds of symbols ...

“I knew it was important. I certainly did not have any idea that it might be alphabetic symbols and that this would be pushing back our recognition of the alphabet by centuries.” Schwartz ...

To be more efficient in relaying price changes on company stock to investors, company names were shortened to one to five alpha symbols. Today, stock tickers still exist, but digital displays have ...