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 ...

As is often the case with our letters, we can thank the ancient Greeks for the Z since they probably used the letter “zeta” to represent the sound “ts.” But Z’s journey into the current ...

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Since the letter doesn’t appear in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, when Russians use the symbol online, whether by changing the letter that makes the z sound in Russian–which looks more like a ...