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 ...

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 ...

KTRK Photo/ NASA No doubt you've seen some pretty incredible images of Earth from space. But now we're getting to see pictures showing the English alphabet from space! The NASA earth observatory ...

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, ...

You may not be surprised to know that some languages don't use the English alphabet in their writing systems. These languages possess their own names and special writing characters, so unfamiliar and ...