What We Thought This Decade Would Be Like Vs. Reality

The Alphabet Would No Longer Contain C, X, and Q

Language is always changing. We may not have had the expression “on fleek” 10 years ago, but the English alphabet hasn’t really changed all that much since the 1800s. Olde English saw a couple characters we don’t recognize now like “wynn” and “thorn.” Somewhere down the line, “uu” became “w” and the ampersand (or &) was removed as the English alphabet’s 27th character. The S was brought in to replace ƒ somewhere around WWI, but since then, the alphabet has been the same. In 1900, Ladies’ Home Journal predicted that the letters C, X and Q would disappear from the alphabet within 100 years. That never happened. Not even close.