G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph ...

They refer back to a letter we don’t really use anymore ... was written using an adapted Latin alphabet introduced by Christian missionaries, write Jonathan Slocum and Winfred P.

The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants ... Saints Cyril and Methodius were two brothers, monks, and Christian missionaries to the Slavic people and are credited with devising ...