The alphabet song won't help you in the case of this viral riddle Social media’s newest brain game has a ton of people stumped. So stumped, in fact, that the riddle has gone viral. People are ...

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. But how did they get there, and why do they look the way they do? Michael Rosen tackles these questions and more in his new book Alphabetical. Nobody ...

Most of us learn the alphabet at kindergarten, singing our way from 'A for apple' through to 'Z for zebra' without ever stopping to wonder why the letters are arranged in that particular sequence. Yet ...

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