The letter formerly known as...

I wonder what the world would be like if some letters never esisted? Like if they were just never thought up and, as such, never made their way into our alphabet. Would we find a replacement?

From my eperience, necessity is the mother of all invention. However, is having a certain letter a necessity? Could we live without it? I'm sure that if someone removed a letter from the alphabet right now that would cause fairly serious problems, but what if it was before our time?

I guess the entire discussion is a moot point. We have our alphabet with its twenty si letters, and it works, why question it? Because we can, that's why.

If we did get rid of one though, we could replace it with a fancy little squiggle, like Prince did. Ecept less gay.