The alphabet regulates how we learn the English letters (to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”), organize books on library shelves and line up students for a graduation procession. Saying the ...

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six ...

What we now know as the modern English alphabet first appeared thousands of years ago, a new research project into its origin and spread has found. It was used more than 3,000 years ago in the ancient ...

Support local by picking up one of these BC-published books from an indie bookstore. My own high school had done a pretty good job of teaching us how to spell in the 1950s, so I was surprised, less ...