For all the adaptations and mutations, the alphabet's order of letters has been relatively stable. In the 1920s, archaeologists found a dozen stone tablets used in a school in Ugarit, ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. We often sort letters and words in alphabetical order. This means to order them as they appear in the alphabet. When ...

It would take centuries, and the dropping of more than a few letters along the way, before our alphabet was born. By year 1011, the order that we know today was largely in place — excluding “J ...

Most of us learn the alphabet at kindergarten, singing our way from 'A for apple' through to 'Z for zebra' without ever stopping to wonder why the letters are arranged in that particular sequence ...

The earliest typewriters had the letter keys in alphabetical order. The trouble was that if you hit two keys quickly the levers would jam.

How the Alphabet Got Its Order, Malcolm X and Other New Books to Read These five October releases may have been lost in the news cycle Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History ...