At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

We live in a world of initials. Stores, organizations, destinations that used to be recognized by a full name today are better known by their initials.

If you’re a frequent flyer, an adventurer at heart, or someone who simply loves the airport buzz, there’s one little trick that can make your travels smoother, smarter, and just a bit more fun—the ...

The pronunciation of “Qatar” is a no-brainer for Arabic speakers and speakers of similar languages. But it’s one tricky ...

Did you know that there is a military alphabet? This is a special phonetic alphabet that is used by the military to communicate over radios and other devices. The military alphabet was created in ...

and the story goes that the earliest alphabet—known as Proto-Sinaitic script—developed in the Sinai peninsula, which transformed some Egyptian hieroglyphics into a phonetic script. However ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet ... characters only refer to the phonetic value of a sign—so the ...

But according to Scientific American’s Stephanie Pappas ... and cuneiform—used symbols representing objects or phonetic sounds. Eventually, Proto-Sinaitic script, which transformed some ...

“It changes the entire narrative of how the alphabet was introduced,” Schwartz ... this week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research, held in Boston.

On-air challenge: This is a phonetic puzzle. If I asked you to say the cry of a ghost plus a letter of the alphabet to get a bunch of flowers, you'd say BOO plus K to get BOUQUET. Now try these.