The original “Y” entered the alphabet as “upsilon” or our “U.” Around 100 AD Romans added “Y” to their alphabet, usually to denote something of Greek origins.

The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient ...

Using a corkscrew, writing a letter with a pen or unlocking a door by turning a key are actions that seem simple but actually ...

Some letters in the alphabet are workhorses, showing up everywhere and often, while others (looking at you, “Z”) are much rarer. But just where does each letter appear with the most frequency?

Because the Latin alphabet did not have a letter to represent the sound /w/ in Old English, 7th-century scribes just wrote it as ‘uu.’ The double-u symbol eventually meshed together to form ...

News & Views Published: 07 May 2014 Synthetic biology New letters for life's alphabet Ross Thyer & Jared Ellefson Nature 509, 291–292 (2014) Cite this article ...