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There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. But how did they get there, and why do they look the way they do? Michael Rosen looks for answers in his new book Alphabetical.
The alphabet has precisely the same twenty-six letters and base ten number system as English , and the writers didn’t create an Alienese language to go along with the alphabet, so everything it ...
The one thing that has stood the test of time though, is the alphabet that the language is written in. Adopted around the 700s, the English alphabet is based on Latin script and has 26 letters ...