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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
“Chuckie” was a derisive term coined by infantrymen, using the army’s spelling alphabet where a word is assigned to each letter of the alphabet.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
This began with the first alphabets and handwriting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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
Government linguists devised the modified Roman alphabet adopted in 1928 by Turkey for writing Turkish, as well as the modified Cyrillic alphabets designed for many tribal languages of Russia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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