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 ...

English Trick of the Day explains important capitalization rules every student must know. Learn when to use capital letters ...

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At 26 letters long, the English alphabet isn’t the most complicated string of symbols and characters to master, even for a five-year-old. You know the alphabet. It’s one of the first things you’re ...

What it's called: Eng. Who uses it: Many African languages (e.g., Bambara, Bemba, Dinka, Ewe, Ewondo, Fula, Ganda, Maasai, Nuer, Shilluk, Tuareg, Wolof), several ...

Bookmark this story if you frequently play Wordle. It includes a ranking of the most commonly used letters in the English language. How about that Wordle puzzle on May 29? The five-letter answer in ...

Many Americans are unaware that there are two correct versions of a lowercase "G" — and even fewer people are able to correctly identify and write each version if they're asked, according to research ...

I often worry that writing letters of all kinds is a dying art form. But then I meet someone like David English, and I go find a stamp. Careful readers of The New York Times Book Review will likely ...

The longest word in the English language is a massive 189,819-letter chemical name for the protein titin. While it’s technically the correct name based on scientific rules, most dictionaries don’t ...