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 ...

I ran across a few letters that once were part of our alphabet but later faded away. One is called the thorn. It represents the "th" sound. Because you make the sound by pushing air out of your mouth, ...

THE English language has had a long and storied history, and it's gone through many changes throughout the years. You only have to flip through a few pages of any William Shakespeare's play to see how ...

Benjamin Franklin was many things. Politician, scientist, inventor, printer author, he was a visionary whose ideas helped shape America. But he also had some notions that, while founded on sound logic ...