Around the same time as “M,” “N” was emerging in Egypt ... “Z” might be the last letter of the alphabet, but it’s an elder. Three-thousand years ago the Phoenicians used a letter ...

But did you know that they’re not teaching you all of the alphabet? There are quite a few letters (defined somewhat loosely) that English largely tossed aside as our language grew, and you ...

The alphabet features animals in creative poses ... or a mob of meerkats standing on their adorable hind legs (forming a capital letter M). Interestingly, according to Reed, U is not for Urchin ...

Russians use an alphabet based on the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants, ten vowels and two signs. Yet it wasn’t always like that. The name ‘Cyrillic ...

“Alphabet Topography,” a piece from Yale graduates Caspar Lam and YuJune Park of the Synoptic Office design studio, recreates the letters like a map of the mountains. The height of each letter ...