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5 unusual facts about English alphabet


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Derrick de Kerckhove

He also co-edited with Charles Lumsden The Alphabet and the Brain (Springer Verlag, 1988), a book which scientifically assesses the impact of the Western alphabet on the physiology and the psychology of human cognition.

English alphabet

In the year 1011, a writer named Byrhtferð ordered the Old English alphabet for numerological purposes.

Please Teach Me English

One day, Young-ju boasts about a pig on her grandparents' farm who can recognize the English alphabet.

Sesame Square

The show is scheduled to have three seasons, with the first containing 26 episodes, one for each letter of the English alphabet.



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English Qabalah

The first appearance of a system of gematria using the natural order of the English alphabet was developed in 1532 by Michael Stifel, who also proposed a system called the trigonal alphabet, using successive triangular numbers.

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny

Ultima V used a modified form of the Elder Futhark runic alphabet for some game text, adding some letters to make a complete one-to-one correspondence with the English alphabet (plus a few runes to represent some common two-letter combinations).