1.   Is there a way I can use a Spanish alphabet when I e-mail my cousin and an English alphabet the rest of the time?

2.   The phonetic alphabet associates every letter of the English alphabet with a word beginning with that letter.

3.   Though it was not originally a written language, people simply adapted the English alphabet and wrote phonetically.

4.   When Farhaad arrived in America with his family in July, he knew the English alphabet but spoke only his native Farsi.