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 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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

(There are other allographs of the letter "G," including uppercase printed "G" and upper- and lower-case cursive "G.") “We think that if we look at something enough, especially if we have to pay ...