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Because it was the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the children gathered inside the prayer hall to recite the Quran, she recalls, before she began teaching her pupils a new letter of the Persian alphabet.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
“There’s a lot of other letters in the alphabet that could have been a typo.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
"I can make out all the letters of the alphabet, even the smallest ones," he marvelled, pointing to his phone screen.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Each letter in a standard Caesar cipher is replaced by the one three spots down the alphabet so an ‘A’ becomes a ‘D.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
Sometimes the person calling the alphabet spoke too quickly or made mistakes.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The database includes misspellings, mixed alphabets, and coded inscriptions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
We were born with the language to play and be curious before we even understood letters and alphabets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
She has potty-trained children, taught them Spanish, taught them their alphabets and colors and has made sure they were ready for school by the time they entered kindergarten.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
The earliest preserved examples of the Etruscan and Roman alphabets are also inscriptions on drinking cups and wine containers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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