What’s the easiest sound to make?
AAAAAAH!
“A” is the sound of air pushed through vocal cords and open mouth.
The sound a baby makes the moment it’s born.
Simple.
B-B-B-B!
“B” is the same sound, but with lips briefly closed.
“a” and “b”. A baby’s first two sounds.1
A and B. The alphabet's first two letters.2
While words have tricksy meanings3, phonemes (letter sounds) are biology-based.
The way words sound influences what they mean. For biological reasons.
I will explore this more in future posts.
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“b” or possibly “m” or “p”, hence “baba”, “mama”, “papa”.
A and B are the first letters in Latin/English, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Syriac, Phoenician, and quite possibly other alphabets. The word “alphabet” (alpha-bet) acknowledges this, as does the word “abjad” (used for writing systems where the vowel is inferred).
The tricksiness of words a topic I have addressed several times, and will return to. For example, see earlier posts on the changing meaning of words, why nouns are a blunt tool and the verb “to be” is dangerous, and why every word is a word too many.