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way that the modern word alphabet derives from the Greek letters alpha and beta). The order of the first five letters, BLFSN, led the scholar Macalister to propose that a link between a form of the Greek alphabet used in Northern Italy in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. However, there is no evidence for Macalister's theory, and it has been discounted by later scholars. There are in fact other explanations for the name Beith-luis-nin. One explanation is that the word nin, which means 'forked branch', was used to mean letters in general.

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