How many letters are in the modern English alphabet?

There is only one alphabet in English, and it contains 26 letters. It was only after the early 16th century when 'i' came to be distinguished from 'j', and 'u' from 'v'. There was also a time when children recited the alphabet with an extra line (x,y,z) "and, per se, and".

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DONNA

This one is so easy a kindergarten could answer this question

Gustavo Aristizabal Tobon

There is not such thing as "English Alphabet". The English language, as well as almost all European languages (i.e. French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, etc), uses the Latin Alphabet.

marilynroman

I thought that this had to be a trick question, but I went with the right answer anyway.

Chris Brown

Childishly easy.

Albert

This is the only question till now that I did not crack my brain.

Ashok Kumar

Terri L Hargrove-Taylor, Right and the Arabic numerals are the Indian numerals.

Goochy

I think there are 27, because there is a u and a double u !

Neil L. Hoopes

Gustavo... You mean "no" such thing? It is hard to take you seriously with regards to any language information when you make such an obvious grammar mistake.