Alphabet, Abjad and so forth

[Mark A Mandel]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Michael wrote:

#Does English have any other terms that we use to refer to
#a language's writing system should it fall outside of the
#usual "abecedarian" approach ?

No disrespect to the question, but I'm thinking of _Uncle Shelby's ABZ_.
;-)\

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguist at Large