The Alphabet Alphabet
Welcome me to the board! Now! :P Actually, I have a question. Maybe you guys know the answer, maybe you don't. It's about our latin alphabet. Does it have some other name than "the alphabet"? I mean, I've never actually heard one, so my own thoughts are that "no, there most likely is no alternate name". I just think it's a bad idea using the word "alphabet" both as a definition of a type of writing system, and as the name of one such script. Anyone agree?

It's commonly called the "Latin alphabet" or the "Roman alphabet". There isn't really any other name for it that I know of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet Also, Welcome.

"Criss-cross row". (It was sometimes written with a cross before and after it.) "ABCs". (Alphabets and abugidas often are named for their first several "letters"; e.g. "futhark", "bopomofo". The same may be true of syllabaries and abjads FAIK.) "your letters". In colonial America a prerequisite to entering elementary school was that the child had to know "his letters", that is, the ABCs. Not-yet-quite-literate people have referred to them as "marks". I'd not be too shocked to hear they'd also called them "runes" at some time in the past. The above are all phrases and words used to mean "the (Latin) Alphabet" in RL English at various times in places in history. What they've been called in other languages written in the same alphabet, I won't go into detail about; but consider "romanji" and "pinyin".

I call it 'Roman letters'.