Now, alphabets! What’s that? An alphabetic orthography is one where each phoneme is generally represented by a single grapheme (a term we will simply use for a smaller unit of orthography) or even a ...

The University of Cambridge says the modern English alphabet was first used more than 3,000 years ago in Ugarit, which is now Syria. It may have spread through travel and trade.

George Bernard Shaw, a famous man of letters, developed a phonetic alphabet. For some reason it didn’t catch on. That has not discouraged critics of the status quo.

It even had its own song.This isn't the only letter that has been lost in time. Languages grow and evolve, and English has actually lost a few letters along the way, while not gaining U and J ...

The alphabet has precisely the same twenty-six letters and base ten number system as English , and the writers didn’t create an Alienese language to go along with the alphabet, so everything it ...

An organisation called Dream English has changed the tune of the alphabet in a bid to make it more effective, especially for those learning English as a second language.