alphabet

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

Color is so fundamental to how we describe the world that we learn its vocabulary almost as early as the alphabet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

While there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, there are 676 possible pairings, and the meaning of each letter in a digraph depends on how it is paired.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

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