G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph ...

Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

Other hieroglyphs represented strings of sounds. A goose could stand for the word "goose" gb, the sound gb, or — followed by a glyph of a seated god — the name of the earth-god Geb.

An alphabet is a collection of letter symbols that have been more or less standardized, and which often – though not always – reflect all of the sounds made in a particular language.

With such an alphabet it will be practically impossible to make any mistake either in spelling or pronunciation. It is hard to end an argument like this; it is easier to write a book on the ...