George Bernard Shaw, a member of the Simplified Spelling Soesiety. The English language is notorious for complex spelling ...

It’s not pronounced /wuh/, like the whispering sound the letter brings to words like whale and wonder. W’s name isn’t tied to its sound at all—it’s a historical nod to its origins. So how did this ...

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...

Experts in London have spent three months piecing together the shattered remains of Roman artworks, revealing luxurious ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule.

Chinese scientists told the Post that publishing under just their pinyin name – in English-language journals in which Mandarin is represented in the Latin alphabet – was challenging when it ...

In 2024, he is pushing the envelope, again. This time he has brought out Mushkil Kaam (Difficult Task), a collection of short stories in the Roman alphabet. A Ghaziabad publishing house ...

Letters inscribed along the edges of this slate slab from the 5th century B.C. are closely related to the Phoenician alphabet, which was hugely influential Latin, Spanish and English writing systems.

The politics of early dot-matrix printing—this embedded Latin-alphabet centrism—ran even deeper, as discovered in the early work of Chan-hui Yeh, the developer of the 120-shift IPX device.

The English “H,” for example, makes a “ha” sound, but the same symbol “H” is pronounced as “en” in Russian; in the Cyrillic alphabet, “H” makes a “n” sound.