THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six ...

Some of the oldest English alphabets ever documented feature the ampersand symbol, typically at the end of the alphabet after ...

At 26 letters long, the English alphabet isn’t the most complicated string of symbols and characters to master, even for a five-year-old. You know the alphabet. It’s one of the first things you’re ...

THE English language has had a long and storied history, and it's gone through many changes throughout the years. You only have to flip through a few pages of any William Shakespeare's play to see how ...

The coolest letter in the alphabet: When we learn the letters of the English alphabet, we just remember them in order, from A to Z. But have you ever thought about whether some letters are just ...

I ran across a few letters that once were part of our alphabet but later faded away. One is called the thorn. It represents the "th" sound. Because you make the sound by pushing air out of your mouth, ...