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 cha… ...

Let CBBC's Naomi Wilkinson bring the alphabet to life with this memorable song and movement routine. This song might also help pupils learning English as an additional language.

Meet the “Smith” of the English alphabet—e is used more often than any other letter. It appears in 11 percent of all words, according to an analysis of more than 240,000 entries in the ...

So, without further ado, let’s forget the alphabet. Writing. What is a writing system? Well, that is a term that is kind of technical and easy for lay people to understand what that means, a true ...

Master the Korean alphabet (Hangul) with our comprehensive guide! Learn all consonants, vowels, and diphthongs with easy ...

Basically there were five additional characters used in the English alphabet that has since disappeared: Thorn, Eth, Wynn, Ash and Ethel. The first letter, Thorn, makes the "th" sound such as in ...

To become truly universal, English would have to ditch not just its present alphabet, but alphabets in general. We could do as the Chinese do, and adopt a system of ideograms whose meanings are ...

This differs from other writing systems, like Japanese, that are syllabaries, in which each letter represents a full syllable. So in Korean, to write the sound /ka/, like in English, you write the two ...