India Today on MSN

Which language has no alphabet?

Z style alphabets. Chinese uses characters tied to meaning while Japanese blends characters and syllabaries. Together they ...
The Sun

Old English alphabet has SIX ‘lost letters’ that have vanished from our language

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 ...
The Economist

Why Anglophones use the alphabet so oddly

Why Q Needs U. By Danny Bate. Blink Publishing; 336 pages; £14.99. T HE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children ...
IFLScience

There Used To Be 27 Letters In The Alphabet, And People Are Only Just Finding Out

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
The Star

QuickCheck: Has the English language lost letters in its alphabet?

THE English language has had a long and storied history, and it's gone through many changes throughout the years. You only have to flip through a few pages of any William Shakespeare's play to see how ...