Another holdover from the Futhorc runic alphabet, wynn was adapted to the Latin alphabet because there wasn't a letter that quite fit the "w" sound that was common in English.

The video explained that the 27th letter of the alphabet is "ampersand", as denoted by "&". "This is an ampersand and believe it or not it used to be the 27th letter in the alphabet, you see back ...

There's only one letter that Brits and Americans pronounce differently on either side of the pond. Here's the history of how we say "Z," and why.

The Military Alphabet During World War II. During World War II, the United States military used a modified version of the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet (JANAP). This was adopted in 1941 and ...

As letters of the alphabet go, there is one that punches well above its weight. Out of a total of 308,000 entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, just 366 words begin with the letter "x", and ...