Believe it or not, the capital A hasn’t always looked the way it does now. Ancient Egyptians wrote the letter upside down, ...

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 ...

Why Q Needs U. By Danny Bate. Blink Publishing; 336 pages; £14.99. T HE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children ...

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 ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Who created ...

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 ...

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 ...

It may come as a surprise that the English language has over the centuries dropped as many as ten letters from its arsenals, bringing its strength down to 26 from 36. The video above, by Gregory ...

Discover how Chinese and Japanese writing systems work without alphabets, using symbols and syllabaries that represent ...