My husband rolled over in bed the other morning. “I was dreaming about the periodic table. I wonder if the alphabet is in the right order.” (Sometimes I feel like Ms. Frizzle, without her Magic School ...

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 ...

Twenty-six straight or squiggly visual signs make possible all our written communication. It’s easy to take the alphabet — or, more properly, our alphabet, the one used by English-speakers and writers ...

The principal benefit of traditional alphabetical order is felt in reference material. Although the corpus of reference texts available and searchable electronically grows ever larger, many of us find ...