It’s not pronounced /wuh/, like the whispering sound the letter brings to words like whale and wonder. W’s name isn’t tied to its sound at all—it’s a historical nod to its origins. So how did this ...

There are 195 countries on the map, but can you name one for every letter of the alphabet? Find out if any letters lack ...

The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet had been a fairly innocuous entity for 2,500 years. But in just two weeks, it became notorious. Omicron moved beyond classical philosophy texts, beyond the ...

ABC: The Alphabet From the Sky by designer Benedikt Gross and geographer Joey Lee is a modern twist on the classic children’s alphabet book where accidental letterforms are hidden in the ...

In a Tuesday letter, U.K. billionaire and Alphabet investor Chris Hohn urged the Google parent’s CEO to “take aggressive action” to cut costs as he criticized the firm’s head count for ...