Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

We are all aware that the English alphabet contains 26 letters, beginning with A and ... This pronunciation produced the sound of 'and per se and.' Through repeated mispronunciations and sound ...

As English is an evolving language, this wasn't the only extra alphabet letter that was later dropped as other letters that we no longer recognise include thorn (þ) – a soft "th" sound – and ...