If you don’t count repeats, there are only seven different letters in “the alphabet”: T, H, E, A, L, P and B. Now you see why this question catches so many people off guard. If you said ...

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 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 ...

The English language can be baffling at times—just look to words like phlegm, receipt, and chthonic for proof. Silent letters are unavoidable. Almost every word in the alphabet is occasionally ...