How many letters are in the English alphabet? Now that you know the trick to this kind of question, you should be able to solve this alternate version of the alphabet riddle.

Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

The Cherokee alphabet is a notable success story. In the early 19th century, a man named Sequoyah created a script for writing his native Cherokee, which until then had only ever been spoken aloud.

The genetic code is simple: four bases that form two pairs (A–T and G–C) are used in all of life. Expansion of this code to incorporate unnatural nucleotides and base pairing has been a goal ...

This time, we looked at a trio of alphabet-focused educational apps. The first was Intro to Letters, a $5 app from Montessorium.