How many letters are in the alphabet?

[maddawg IAJI]

Complian to the Principal. As much as I would want to kick his face in violence will only make this worse. You don't want to be marked wrong and go to jail on an account of Assualt.

 

[NeutralDrow]

XKCD has the answer

That's it, basically.

I could see a case made for, say, the Japanese syllabary having more symbols than just indicated in hiragana, but hiragana and katakana really are two different writing systems. With the Latin alphabet, it's bordering on truth, but not quite there.

 

[Flap Jack452]

oh, you were serious. You guys speak a variant of English, it is known not as "American" but as "English (U.S.)" get it right.

Were not all like that, I promise.

Were? We're?
An important mistake.

Jeez, I can't even sound intelligent I actually try to

 

[Arcyde]

Your teacher is an idiot.

 

[Ventuquies]

Sorry, but your teacher is right. The English alphabet derives from the Latin alphabet and consists out of 26 characters. Each of these characters has a minuscule letter and a manuscule letter and therefore, there are 52 letters in the English alphabet.

P.S.: Alphabets derived from Latin always have 26 characters (nowadays). Ö ,ü ,ß for example are just letter variations of o, u, s indicating different pronounciation.

 

[Yowsa]

russian 33

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

I can't believe that anyone who thinks that upper and lowercase count as two different letters is actually a teacher.

serriously your teacher needs to go buy a gun and shot himself in the fucking face

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

Tell him s/he's a FUCKING IDIOT.

Then, quickly, before they get furious, point out that you were using the capital form and that they are totally different symbols used in different situations, and that no offense was intended.

Fairly certain that should work.

yea that should work

 

[Ventuquies]

Sorry, but your teacher is right. The English alphabet derives from the Latin alphabet and consists out of 26 characters. Each of these characters has a minuscule letter and a manuscule letter and therefore, there are 52 letters in the English alphabet.

P.S.: Alphabets derived from Latin always have 26 characters (nowadays). Ö ,ü ,ß for example are just letter variations of o, u, s indicating different pronounciation.

I disagree. He asked for letters not characters. C and c are the same letter, but different characters.

I think this is mainly a definition problem.. I looked it up and actually "character" and "letter" are synonyms if not defined different.

I think its correct to say the English alphabet has 26 letters with each of them having two different forms. 26 letters is therefore correct.

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

It seems we have reached a consensus.

Should I bring up with him on Monday?

Do it. Or, you could try to be a smart-ass with him and ask if he also counts the "52" cursive characters in the English alphabet, which would give a grand total of 104 letters. Use his own moon-logic against him.

I agree with this. Do that and put him in his place

 

[Ciran]

I said 26 and I was marked wrong as the teacher said "Capitals and small letters, there are actually 52 letters in the alphabet." I argued that were fundamentally the same and he said they are totally different symbols used in different situations than each other.

Who's right?

You, regardless of whether an "A" is capital or not, it's still an "A" and I'd like to argue the fact that they are used in completely different situations. Take the recent game inFamous. Right there a capital is used where normally a lower case letter should suffice, and they also replace the capital "I" with a lower case letter.

Basically, your teacher is a retard.

 

[blankedboy]

I like the GREEK ALPHABET

From which Alpha - Beta makes Alpha - Bet

 

[A random person]

Aren't they different versions of each other? Since when were different versions separate things all together?

 

[thiosk]

capitalization is akin to punctuation.

hes a typeography nerd and you should turn in all your future work to him in papyrus font

but you do realize "the alphabet" contains 11 letters (or 8 unique letters...)

 

[Ventuquies]

Sorry, but your teacher is right. The English alphabet derives from the Latin alphabet and consists out of 26 characters. Each of these characters has a minuscule letter and a manuscule letter and therefore, there are 52 letters in the English alphabet.

P.S.: Alphabets derived from Latin always have 26 characters (nowadays). Ö ,ü ,ß for example are just letter variations of o, u, s indicating different pronounciation.

I disagree. He asked for letters not characters. C and c are the same letter, but different characters.

I think this is mainly a definition problem.. I looked it up and actually "character" and "letter" are synonyms if not defined different.

I think its correct to say the English alphabet has 26 letters with each of them having two different forms. 26 letters is therefore correct.

What is your definition of form?

different writing style

P.S.: (ignore if you just want to know if it is correct or wrong and don't care about some philosophating)
Again, this is really a definition problem. There is actually no commonly agreed definition of what a "different" letter is. Therefore, the OP is correct, because the teacher could not proof him wrong and I guess its commonly agreed that the alphabet has 26 letters.. However, its like saying a ball can only be red, green and blue and the rest is just different shadings of that colour..

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

Where did your teacher get his degree? Ask him then blow the place up.