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 ...

The English language can be baffling at times—just look to words like phlegm, receipt, and chthonic for proof. Silent letters are unavoidable. Almost every word in the alphabet is occasionally ...

And have a little bit of fun.” Emily Medeiros, age 7, was busily tracing over a group of letters to get a feel for the craft. She said she liked writing because “it has, like, tricky letters.” ...