Sometimes words just have to be spelled for others. I’ve been on phone conversations where the person on the other end is spelling for me and it’s painful. “Was that a ‘b’ or a ‘p’?” ...

Ancient Egyptians wrote the letter upside down, creating a symbol that resembled a steer with horns. Learn the surprising ...

There’s something magical about songs that spell out words ... Let's break down 14 tracks that turn the alphabet into art.

A male is a ‘mike’. We use letters selected from a standard phonetic, or spelling, alphabet so nobody fumbles for words. Spelling alphabets came about because early users of radios ...

James Wannerton taste flavours when he reads words – even single letters – so BBC Future asked him to tell us the taste of the alphabet. Find out what strange tastes your initials spell out ...

What are vowels and consonants? Find out how to spot the five vowels in an alphabet full of consonants. An English article on how to spell words correctly by recognising patterns and applying the ...

Another possibility for a source alphabet is Latin ... As one Viking poet put it, "Let no man carve runes to cast a spell, save first he learns to read them well." While many in the upper classes ...

Poet and Didn’t Know It: Start by entering a phrase. Ask your bard-iest friend to respond with a phrase that rhymes with it.

Some plural nouns can be difficult to spell. There are rules that can help ... u and a consonant - all the other letters in the alphabet.

Big Tech’s AI spending continues to accelerate at a blistering pace, with the four giants well on track to spend upwards of a ...

Next, our students begin to compose words with the moveable alphabet, a set of letters cut out of wood ... At this point, we ...