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… ...

In English however, instead of a rounded "o" sound it made a long "e" sound, such as in the word subpoena/subpœna. Much like Ash, it eventually was split into two letters, namely o and e.

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 ...

A YouTube video has recently gone viral on the Internet. The video reveals that — centuries ago, 10 letters were dropped from the English alphabet, bringing its strength down to 26 from 36.

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 ...