Across devices in the English-speaking world, a single system rules, almost as immutable as the alphabet itself: Qwerty. Stuart Brady/Wikimedia Commons The Qwerty keyboard or a variation on it is ...

We were taught to sing the “Alphabet Song” before we were potty ... over corrupt in response to FEC audit Sholes invented QWERTY. Sholes was a newspaper editor in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who ...

For some countries—and some languages—QWERTY just won’t cut it. Russian, for example, uses the Cyrillic alphabet, which is wholly different from the Latin-based English alphabet.

I was expecting that a few weeks would be needed to memorise the alphabet, based on my experience of learning to type on Qwerty. But it appeared that with only 5 keys I could memorise all the ...