As strange as it sounds, the English alphabet had several more ... University with a background in Late Medieval European languages, explains that the letters we no longer see gradually fell ...

The original “Y” entered the alphabet as “upsilon” or our “U.” Around 100 AD Romans added “Y” to their alphabet, usually to denote something of Greek origins. Z ...

NARRATOR: At the medieval ... Almost all the letters of the Latin alphabet are ultimately derived from the hieroglyphs that the Canaanites of Serabit chose to represent the sounds of their tongue.

Thanks to a video by TikTok creator @zachdfilms3, people are learning that there used to be 27 letters of the English alphabet ... a way to denote the "ch" sounds, as found at the end of "loch ...

The script's very creation in what was once the medieval ... Notably, the alphabet will also adopt the Western practice of using two letters for both the "Sh" and "Ch" sounds, dropping the single ...