Who can add letters to the alphabet? Who determined 26 letters were enough?
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The development of the alphabet happened over a period of time as languages developed. Our current alphabet derives from the Latin alphabet, which only had 23 letters (no J, V, or W). At the time, that alphabet provided one letter for every sound in the language, but as new sounds entered, it was not adequate. In fact, the Emperor Claudius invented new letters to be added to the alphabet, though they never caught on. When the European peoples left the Dark Ages and began writing once again, they had new sounds and needed ways to represent them, so they invented new symbols to do so, namely J, V, and W.
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No.\n\nSome other languages have more than 27 letters in their alphabets.\nEnglish used to have more itself including þ (named:Thorn), đ (Eth), and æ (Ash).
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Forty of course.\n\n=D
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THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG.\nHowever, this pangram is far from perfect. It contains three e's, two h's, four o's two r's, two t's, and two u's. It can be improved slightly by changing 'the' to 'a', but it still contains thirty-three letters. \n\nTo date, no one has come up with a perfect pangram which makes perfect sense. However, as English evolves and new words are added, it may someday be possible to succeed in this quest. Some have experimented with computers but the results have been less than spectacular. Only pangrams of forty letters or more were found: \nTHE QUALMISH AFGHAN JEW PACKED OVER SIXTY FEZ WITH BEES. \n\nTo be fair, the task is not a simple one. The twenty-six letters of the alphabet can be combined in 403,290,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 ways! \n\nTHIS PASSAGE FROM EZRA 7:21 CONTAINS EVERY LETTER EXCEPT "J"..\nAnd I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treaurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily.
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(^^you forgot 41)\n25\n\n2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97
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30 different characters contributed to the bible over a period of around 30 years.  Then it was edited countless times by other characters.  Then rewritten a few times to be "clearer on certain subjects.".\n\nBy the time we got the modern version, there were no original copies left to check the authenticity and accurateness of the text.
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An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. There are other systems of writing such as logographies, in which each symbol represents a morpheme, or word, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable.\n\nThe word "alphabet" itself is popularly believed to come from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, but some etymologists argue that instead the word derives from aleph and bet, the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet. The true origin of the word is unclear. There are dozens of alphabets in use today. Most of them are 'linear', which means that they are made up of lines. Notable exceptions are Braille, manual alphabets, Morse code, and the cuneiform alphabet of the ancient city of Ugarit.
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.......  the alphabet
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Oh it's really easy. Here is a website that will have the alphabet.\n\nhttp://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~sa125593/ling516/project2/letters.jpg\n\nand \n\n\nhttp://www.freearabvoice.org/acArabicAlphabet.html
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Answer to life, the universe, and everything. = 42, which is the number of letters and spaces total.  If all you want are the 3 words "answer to life", then the answer is 13.  But what you really need to figure out is: Question to life, the universe, and everything.  This is 44?  So, take the question & subtract the answer, and you will get 2, because it takes 2 to make life.  2 = we, because we ask the question and want the answer, and we make new life through procreation.
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Letters of the alphabet (upper and lower case) and numbers from 0 to 9.
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It would help if we knew the number of letters and any cross letters you know. =o)
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Well, it ranges from 40,000 to 80,000 because it's really difficult to give an exact count as to the number of characters, since many of them are obscure, unused, or arcahic variants, even though they are all different.\n\nFor example, "two" is normally written as 二\nHowever, these two characters: 貳  弍 are ancient, though pretty much unused, ways to write it.\n\nCheck out the first source for more info.  I hope this helps  :)
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how many lettered word? it could be "subject"
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you sure thats the exact clue??  i cant think of anything with that clue, except accelaration ( spelling), but thats more than 7 letters. would like more info.
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A "word" is typically 5 letters.  So 20 words will equal 100 letters.
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it depends on the alphabet.\n\nFor exemple, greek alphabet, as well as the jewish and the arab ones, used to be used instead of figures: each letter had its own value: usually from 1 to 9, from 10 to 90, from 100 to 900 or something like that. In this way they were able both to represent numbers with a "word" (in arabic, the number "words" had a straight line upon them to recognize them), and to give a numerical value to each word, according to a sacred numerology which varied according to the Tradition.\n\nThe numerology of western alphabet, for what I know, doesn't have an ancient hystory.