The word 'alphabet' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the standard alphabet used in English, which consists of 26 letters. For example, "I'm learning the alphabet so I can start writing in English."
Instead, I sign up for Google adwords, and start working my way through the alphabet.
Over each of the next 26 working days I'll be looking at one aspect of the project -- one for each letter of the alphabet, for want of a better structure.
These forces loath the alphabet soup of supranational governance institutions – the EU, the UN, the WTO, and the IMF, among others – that globalisation requires.
We might need an X-ray sometimes, and let's not forget a whole section of society known as Generation X. X has so many associations perhaps it should have been at the beginning of the alphabet.
Each of the reissues was then encoded into an alphabet soup of file types – FLAC, AAC and MP3 – so that ultimately there were more than 30 options for downloading this one album alone.
Her only lessons were focused on learning the English alphabet and studying Islam, with her subject being Arabic.
Relations between Vilnius and Warsaw have long been strained over issues such as the restitution of property confiscated under the Soviet regime and the refusal to allow the Polish alphabet on official documents.
American generals trot out a grisly list of chemical and biological weapons at the regime's disposal, spanning much of the alphabet: anthrax, botulism, cholera, haemorrhagic fever, nerve agents, plague, smallpox, typhoid and yellow fever.
As with the "monoline" bond insurers, such as MBIA and Ambac, its woes stem from straying from its core business in AIG's case, underwriting property, casualty and life policies into the alphabet soup of structured finance.
Despite a whole alphabet of acronymous regeneration schemes, lots of grotty neighbourhoods in London and the north are still stubbornly blighted by unemployment, poor health and despair.
By plonking a bland name in front of two seemingly random words (actually, Alan Partridge's initials in what is known as the radio alphabet), the title seems designed to put off viewers who aren't already familiar with the fictional character.
