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… ...

The alphabet of Old English – the predecessor of modern English used in the early Middle Ages – also contained a number of letters that were derived from old regional dialects, ...

Old English (that is, English as it was spoken between 400 and about 1100 AD) was written using an adapted Latin alphabet introduced by Christian missionaries, write Jonathan Slocum and Winfred P ...

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.

Some symbols look similar to the modern Latin alphabet used in English, ... But the 2,400-year-old tablet is broken. The end of the alphabet — anywhere from six to 11 symbols — is missing, ...

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… ...

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… ...