alphabet

And speaking of word games … For a juicy twist on a game involving the letters of the alphabet, may we recommend Slate’s Pears?

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

In three years, he said, he mastered the alphabet, but "it took me 22 years to master 650 words" of vocabulary.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

“It’s an alphabet soup of configurations that can be incredibly confusing,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, told MarketWatch about all the premium screening options.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

And they developed an alphabet that evolved into the Roman letters used throughout Western civilization today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

I also recruited into service the worn-out alphabet blocks my mother had used years earlier to teach us our letters.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

A major advantage of shaping photons is that it allows researchers to use high-dimensional encoding alphabets.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026

So the Shakespeare skeptics were convinced that by looking closely at the letters used to spell each word in Shakespeare’s works, they could make out two different alphabets and uncover a code from Francis Bacon.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

Above the stage, “Elvis” was spelled out in different alphabets, and there were flashing lights that presented an image of him swiveling with a guitar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

Thanks to their potential advantage of combining precision with simplicity, alphabets have now been adopted in most areas of the modern world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond