I am always interested in the origins of words and how language evolves so I was delighted to receive a copy of Why Q Needs U by Danny Bate. Although I find the etymology of words fascinating, I'd never really thought about the history of the individual letters which make up our alphabet. It seems so fixed now that it's easy to forget that the alphabet didn't always run from A-Z and that the 26 letters we're familiar with in the English language alphabet didn't always look the way they do now.