The alphabet regulates how we learn the English letters (to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”), organize books on library shelves and line up students for a graduation procession ...

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 cha… ...

They were taught English alphabet letter sounds, with or without the use of mnemonic images or explicit sound contrasting. The phonemes that correspond to 12 consonant letters were taught.

From its origins with the Phoenicians to Twitter's rebrand, "x" is one of the English alphabet's most powerful and alluring letters, writes Clare Thorp.

It may come as a surprise that the English language has over the centuries dropped as many as ten letters from its arsenals, bringing its strength down to 26 from 36. The video above, by Gregory ...

The University of Cambridge says the modern English alphabet was first used more than 3,000 years ago in Ugarit, which is now Syria. It may have spread through travel and trade.