In the beginning was the word

Before the invention of writing, the only way humans had to communicate was face to face. There was no way to share knowledge until...

There's such a thing as an alphabet. The alphabet was developed to be able to take invisible sounds made by the human mouth and record it...

Recent research suggests that the idea of an alphabet (in which one symbol stands for only one sound) was first used in Egypt in about...

In the picture you can see the transformation of the ancient alphabet into modern. The English alphabet is made of 26 letters. Some...

There were only 30,000 words in Old English. Modern English has the largest vocabulary in the world more than 600,000 words. About...

English is a ridiculous language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger and guineapig is neither from Guinea nor a pig; there...

There are a lot of Englishes spoken in the world today, and most commonly used are the American and the British. To unify their spellings...

It was considered that English spelling could be improved and a five-year plan was accepted for Euro-English ("Euro" for short). In the...