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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by com2kid on Sunday April 15, 2018 @02:45PM (#16844181)
> When is the last time a letter was added or removed from the standard English alphabet?

To be a bit pedantic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s you can still find newspaper articles in Google's archive that use back in the mid 1800s.

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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by rabboRubble on Sunday April 15, 2018 @03:00PM (#16844258)
True, I only looked up "added". Thanks for that detail. I know there are a couple of other letters that used to be common-ish but are no longer.
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