THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six cha… ...

Basically there were five additional characters used in the English alphabet that has since disappeared: Thorn, Eth, Wynn, Ash and Ethel. The first letter, Thorn, makes the "th" sound such as in ...

A three and a half millennia old milk jar fragment ... names of these letters as part of the Semitic alphabet. ... writing system. And of course English—and many other ...

Old English characters (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) I ran across a few letters that once were part of our alphabet but later faded away. One is called the thorn.

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons ...