The alphabet regulates how we learn the English letters (to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”), organize books on library shelves and line up students for a graduation procession. Saying the ...

What we now know as the modern English alphabet first appeared thousands of years ago, a new research project into its origin and spread has found. It was used more than 3,000 years ago in the ancient ...

This February, the iconic dance company pairs a modern classic with Indigenous-led storytelling. My own high school had done a pretty good job of teaching us how to spell in the 1950s, so I was ...