Capital letters were the backbone of Western civilisation ... No one’s died yet from misreading a message in lower case. And most people haven’t even noticed that their world has sandpapered ...

M One of the most common letters, and one of the ... and the only reason I don’t rank it lower is because it can be a wild card vowel, which is pretty cool. Best Y-Word: Yokel 16.

"My heart started to beat faster and I felt like, 'Ooh, this looks like really cool stuff ... "These letters tell us about how people from the lower classes dealt with the challenges of war ...