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 ...

Why is “A” the first letter of our alphabet? Therein lies a “tail.” The ancient Phoenicians, who devised the precursor of our English alphabet about 3,000 years ago, depended heavily on oxen for the ...

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 ...

What we now know as the modern English alphabet first appeared thousands of years ago, a new research project into its origin and spread has found. It was used more than 3,000 years ago in the ancient ...

New research has found that mnemonic images and explicit sound contrasting help Japanese children learn more effectively the sounds of the English alphabet. New research by Professor Emmanuel Manalo ...

In Vancouver, there are more unhoused youth than there are shelter beds. Family Services of Greater Vancouver is working to change that. My own high school had done a pretty good job of teaching us ...