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. Saying the ...
There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. But how did they get there, and why do they look the way they do? Michael Rosen tackles these questions and more in his new book Alphabetical. Nobody ...
Twenty-six straight or squiggly visual signs make possible all our written communication. It’s easy to take the alphabet — or, more properly, our alphabet, the one used by English-speakers and writers ...
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