alphabet

The King is portrayed as resentful, with a "senior courtier" reporting an alleged comment by the late Queen: "He even resented it when I taught him the alphabet."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

All known life on Earth relies on the same four-letter genetic alphabet.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

Letters of the alphabet corresponded to musical notes, and the title of each piece of “music” contained other clues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

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 the peripherals of my vision, the Hebrew letters on signs seemed to change, distorting into an alphabet I had never learned.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

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

Actually, most alphabets consist of only about 20 or 30 letters, and most languages have more phonemes than their alphabets have letters.

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