As students of learning, I must give you an interesting word this week which is boustrophedon. Boustrophedon is a noun that refers to writing of alternate lines in opposite directions as from left to right and from right to left. Before we standardized our writing from left to right, ancient Greek writers used a style called boustrophedon, which literally means "turning like oxen when plowing." These ancient Greeks simply started the next line immediately below the last letter, writing the letters and words in the opposite direction liken an oxen plowing left to right, then right to left. (https://www.merriam-webster.com)
So the next time you are writing your essay from left to right and you enter the next line and continue the left to right sequence, remember the term boustrophedon to recognize the yesteryear when people then wrote the opposite way known as boustrophedon.
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