{"id":23034,"date":"2013-03-14T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=23034"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:45:27","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-letter-added-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-letter-added-alphabet\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What was the last letter added to the alphabet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-letter-added-alphabet\/18104_zoom1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23035\" title=\"Lowercase Alphabet Blocks | UncommonGoods\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/18104_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/18104_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/18104_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/18104_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/18104_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Nope, it&#8217;s not Z! It is no coincidence that I and J stand side-by-side\u2014for centuries they were considered the same character! The letter J started as a swash, a typographical embellishment for the already existing I used to denote the conclusion of a series of ones\u2014as in \u201cHenry viij\u201d for Henry the Eighth. Both I and J were used interchangeably to express the sound of both the vowel and the consonant until 1524 when Renaissance grammarian Gian Giorgio Trissino argued for poor J&#8217;s autonomy in his \u201c\u0190pistola del Trissino de le lettere nu\u03c9vamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana\u201d (&#8220;Trissino&#8217;s epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian language&#8221;). After being snubbed for nearly three more centuries, J was finally acknowledged as a full-fledged letter in the nineteenth-century, making it the baby of the English alphabet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/lowercase-alphabet-blocks?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Lowercase Alphabet Blocks, $30.95<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler Alert: It&#8217;s not Z.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":23035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}