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 ...
Why Q Needs U. By Danny Bate. Blink Publishing; 336 pages; £14.99. T HE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children ...
Why is “A” the first letter of our alphabet? Therein lies a “tail.” The ancient Phoenicians, who devised the precursor of our English alphabet about 3,000 years ago, depended heavily on oxen for the ...
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