Basically there were five additional characters used in the English alphabet that has since disappeared: Thorn, Eth, Wynn, Ash and Ethel. The first letter, Thorn, makes the "th" sound such as in ...

Sixty-eight years ago saw the birth of a new letter in the Danish language. The official introduction of the letter ‘å’ to Danish spelling took the total number of letters to 29. Placed at the end of ...