An Australian businessman has made a new letter of the alphabet. It is a symbol for the word "the". It looks like a capital "T" and a small "h" joined together. However, it looks like a letter from the Serbian language. The man thinks people will like it. People can get it from iTunes. The guy hopes computer makers will put the letter on their keyboards. He spent $35,000 on his app, but Apple isn't so interested. He said it won't change the world, but will be useful.

The man thinks the new letter is useful because it replaces "the," which is the most common English word. He said people will save time typing one key instead of three for "the". He said other words have symbols. For example, the word "and" (the fifth most common word) has the ampersand (&). The man thinks the letter will help where there is a limit on characters. Computer experts don't think companies will change their keyboards or operating systems.