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G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph ...
THE English language has had a long and storied history, and it's gone through many changes throughout the years.
Around the Web Watch: Did you know there were originally ten more letters in the English alphabet? Thirty-six letters? Have our entire lives been a lie?
Caspar Lam and YuJune Park of the design studio Synoptic Office developed a topographic typeface that visualizes how often we use the letters of the alphabet.
"The NATO Phonetic Alphabet substitutes a code word acrophonically for each letter of the English alphabet, so that letters and numbers would have distinct names that would be most easily ...
I ran across a few letters that once were part of our alphabet but later faded away. One is called the thorn.
Where it comes from: The letters h and v merged. In English: Although we used to have hw (or hƿ) all over the place — respelled now as wh — we never used this letter. Don't know ƕy not! 6. ƣ ...
Benjamin Franklin’s phonetic alphabet omniglot Benjamin Franklin was many things. Politician, scientist, inventor, printer author, he was a visionary whose ideas helped shape America. But he ...