James Wannerton taste flavours when he reads words – even single letters – so BBC Future asked him to tell us the taste of the alphabet ... words Share this story on Facebook, Google+ or ...

We are all aware that the English alphabet contains 26 letters, beginning with A and ending with Z. But did you know that the English alphabet once had 27 letters? It used to come after Z and was ...

He explained: "This is an ampersand and believe it or not it used to be the 27th letter in the alphabet, you see back in the day this symbol came after the letter Z and signified the word 'and'." ...