After all, we have been taught since preschool, thanks to the famous alphabet song, that there are 26 letters. If you said 26, try looking at the question in a new way and see if you can come up ...

Written English, along with most modern tongues, is so deeply tied to its alphabet that we may take the pairing for granted. But long before Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, there were alternatives.

She became fascinated. But the more she studied the alphabet over the years, the more she doubted the prevailing theory that elite scribes had invented it. For one thing, the writing was a mess.

Rather than an alphabet, characters are used to represent words in China China's Education Ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to write by hand ...

Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with KPBS Passport! NOVA presents a two-part series, A TO Z: "The First Alphabet" and A TO Z "How Writing Changed The World ...