THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six cha… ...

It even had its own song.This isn't the only letter that has been lost in time. Languages grow and evolve, and English has actually lost a few letters along the way, while not gaining U and J ...

The one thing that has stood the test of time though, is the alphabet that the language is written in. Adopted around the 700s, the English alphabet is based on Latin script and has 26 letters ...

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 looks for answers in his new book Alphabetical.

It may come as a surprise that the English language has over the centuries dropped as many as ten letters from its arsenals, bringing its strength down to 26 from 36. The video above, by Gregory ...