Despite seeing it millions of times in pretty much every picture book, every novel, every newspaper, and every email message, people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase ...

but learning the alphabet is an essential part of literacy. But it seems our curriculum may have failed us when it comes to one letter in particular. How do you write a lowercase 'G'? A new study ...

The alphabet is a little like a baseball team ... is that unlike other lowercase letters, the loop-tail g is as much a stylistic conceit as an actual letter. We are required to recognize it ...

G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph ...

The alphabet song of our youth has been updated ... Twinkle Little Star” — had pauses after the letters “G,” “P,” “S,” “V” and “X,” and ended with “Y and Z.” ...

Silent letters are unavoidable. Almost every word in the alphabet is occasionally guilty ... C sounds different in cat and city, and why the g sounds like nothing at all in gnash.

But did you know that they’re not teaching you all of the alphabet? There are quite a few letters (defined somewhat loosely) that English largely tossed aside as our language grew, and you ...