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When scribes started using symbols to represent pieces of words — first syllables and then individual sounds — alphabetic writing began. At first, alphabetic writing was a form of shorthand, even though it wasn’t actually shorter, just easier to write than the pictograph style, which required a different symbol for every word. With an alphabet, scribes were able to combine fewer symbols to make many words.