After all, we have been taught since preschool, thanks to the famous alphabet song, that there are 26 letters. If you said 26, try looking at the question in a new way and see if you can come up ...

Stock image of plastic letter magnets displaying the alphabet. Getty Images Platt wasn't expecting her comments and explanations on the new ABCs to go viral.

The use of letters of the alphabet as political symbols is a little unusual for the simple reason that individual letters aren’t meant to have any intrinsic meaning of their own.

There are 26 letters in the alphabet, but only 21 names in a given season, because no storms are given names beginning with the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z.

The Spanish alphabet includes the letter “x,” and early Catalan involved several pronunciations of it depending on context, including a pronunciation akin to the modern “sh.” ...