A t a very early age, children begin to learn about the letters of the alphabet and corresponding tricks to remember each one ...

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’?” ...

Fans of the NYT Spelling Bee puzzle, has it ever occurred to you that it would be a lot easier to assemble words if one of the letters was an S? Well, the NYT Spelling Bee puzzle for March 12 obliged, ...

We often sort letters and words in alphabetical order. This means to order them as they appear in the alphabet. When sorting words in to alphabetical order, we look at the first letter of the word.

Recently, I wrote about how to use special characters to identify languages that use Latin alphabets. But what about all those other alphabets? You can't be expected to memorize them all, of course.