American orthography is, to put it charitably, dysfunctional. Whatever the dialect, neither alphabet nor spelling conforms to our speech. Yet, educators insist on perpetuating these incongruities.

Last week, I reviewed W., Oliver Stone's film about the relationship between George H.W. Bush and his son George W. — and I suggested, entirely in passing, that if someone had made a movie about John ...

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The individually well-executed but mismatched elements of "The Alphabet Killer," helmer Rob Schmidt's latest thriller, are glued together in such a slapdash manner that they still seem to bear the ...

The 26-letter alphabet we use is not American, but English. It is a "Made in Britain" import, brought to Plymouth Rock and Jamestown in the 17th century. Noah Webster made it our official alphabet ...

NAPOLEON was out, formerly exiled King Louis XVIII was in. At a grand chateau in the French countryside in 1814, a 2-year-old aristocrat was learning about his post-Revolution world with the aid of an ...

Man Ray painted his first letter “Y” in 1923 as an homage to his friend Yves Tanguy. Even earlier, he contemplated creating an alphabet of Rayographs (photograms) but gave up the idea as too lengthy.