ABSTRACT
The alphabet used in England as well as in most European countries is the Roman alphabet. Though this is better than many Oriental alphabets, it is far from being perfect as a means of rendering sounds, as it is deficient in signs for many simple sounds (e.g. the initial consonants of this and thick, the final one of sing); nor does it possess more than five vowel-letters, where many languages distinguish a far greater number of vowels.
