SINCE 1828
Anglo-Saxon alphabet
nounDefinition of Anglo-Saxon alphabet
: the Latin alphabet as modified for writing Old English by the addition of the four characters æ or ę, edh, thorn, and wen
— called also Old English alphabet
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