As the new alphabet song is going viral on TikTok, Rachel Platt tells PEOPLE why the changes are helping young learners ...

However, most mobile phone manufacturers only include a single alphabet on their keypads. Digit Wireless saw this as an issue and decided to release a phone with two different alphabets on the keypad.

While the new way of singing the alphabet may surprise many, it's been commonplace in Platt's teaching experience. "I have been teaching the ABCs this way my entire teaching career," Platt reveals.

ARABIC, Bengali and Cherokee scripts look utterly different, but in fact have much in common. And the shared characteristics of these and other scripts may tell us something about the limits of ...