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 ...

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 ...