I'm working on a website project and I have a paragraph containing a list of items (it would work great as a ul, but needs to stay a p) that needs to have the first letter of each item bold. I've created a function to do this: function inserter(string, splitter, skip) { var array = string.s...

The ABC order already existed in some form about 1400 BC, in the Ugaritic script, from which our alphabet is descended. From Wikipedia: It is unknown whether the earliest alphabets had a defined sequence. Some alphabets today, such as the Hanuno'o script, are learned one letter at a t...

I'm wondering what mechanism puts a y sound into words like coupon, which presumably had none when it came into the language. French pronunciation would seem to indicate it would be pronounced kuːpɔ:n, not kjuːpɔ:n, but many people pronounce it the latter way. Similarly, why do we have such a di...