Before using the current alphabet that has 28 letters, the Philippines had 4 sets of letters since the pre-colonial times MANILA, Philippines – Like many nations colonized by westerners, the ...

The coolest letter in the alphabet: When we learn the letters of the English alphabet, we just remember them in order, from A to Z. But have you ever thought about whether some letters are just ...

G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph symbols 4,000 years ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Who created ...

Despite seeing it millions of times in pretty much every picture book, every novel, every newspaper, and every email message, people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase ...