How many letters are in the alphabet?

[Merteg]

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?

 

[PirateKing]

You.

 

[Calobi]

Go smack your teacher. Tell him/her it's from me.

 

[billybobby]

your teacher should have specified that capitals where included. congratulations, your teacher is retarded

 

[WrongSprite]

Your teacher is a tool and should be fired, there is 26.

 

[sallene]

So he is saying Y is different than y?



First, call your teacher a scrote and then tell him his shit is all tarded.

 

[Blanks]

8 letters in the word 'alphabet'

 

[Skeleon]

Nobody counts capital letters separately.

congratulations, your teacher is retarded

This.

 

[demmalition1]

Just tell him to state all 52 letters!
Also, I think that you are right, the caps/lowers are only to note a significant part of the sentence;otherwise you could spell "too" 6 different ways...

P.S., I think he's just messing with you and you took it too seriously, but that's just me.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Some languages have compound letters made of more than one character.
Like 'sz' or 'ny'.
They're counted separately.

Then there are á and ó and so forth..

 

[Clashero]

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?

28 for me. I include Ñ and Ll.

 

[ZeroMachine]

... The hell? What class is this for? What grade are you in?

No matter what, you're teacher is a dumbass and an asshole. Kick him in the face or something.

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

24

W is just an upside down M and Z is an N someone tripped over.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Who's right?

You are, he was being a dick.

There are 26 letters, putting a capiTol letter half way through does not change the word's meaning, although it does make you look a bit of a muppet.

 

[chefassassin2]

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

 

[SultanP]

You are, your teacher is an idiot. And why are you other guys confused as to the gender of the teacher? OP wrote "he" in his post.

 

[Fingerprint]

In the Greek alphabet there are 24 letters.

Oh, you mean the English alphabet... er, I'll have to get back to you on that.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Which alphabet? Greek, Chinese, ...?