Let's practice making the sounds for the letter W. To make this sound, the back of your tongue is going to up a little bit and your lips are going to be round, like this, wuh, wuh, wuh.

To answer this question, we have to go farther back than you may think. The two-fold answer also has two facets: the sound (pronunciation) and the visual (typeface). Also, check out the last letter ...

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. But how did they get there, and why do they look the way they do? Michael Rosen tackles these questions and more in his new book Alphabetical. Nobody ...