This time: The Letter ‘E’. E – Euphrat & Tigris (1997) We’re bending the rules slightly for ‘E’ to suggest 1997’s Euphrat & Tigris , released in English 2 years later as Tigris ...

Russians use an alphabet based on the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants, ten vowels and two signs. Yet it wasn’t always like that.

Meet the “Smith” of the English alphabet—e is used more often than any other letter. It appears in 11 percent of all words, according to an analysis of more than 240,000 entries in the ...