Re: Doctor Who Spotting

On 2024-06-13 10:21:15 +0000, Blueshirt said:

Daniel70 wrote:

Blueshirt wrote on 12/6/24 10:59 pm:

 You wait til we start talking about the Irish language, we
don't even have 26 letters in our alphabet!

 More or Less??

 Less. There's only 18 letters in the Irish alphabet.

The Rotokas language of New Guinea only has 12 letters in the alphabet (and two of those letters sound the same!).  :-p
The Khmer language of Southeast Asia has 74 letters in the alphabet, including 24 dependent vowels and 12 independent vowels.
The Chinese language has over 50,000 symbols (many are only historic usage), but only 24 basic characters. Japanese, originally based on Chinese, has similar numbers.  :-)

I could be convinced that the English English Alphabet doesn't
have 26 letters .... I mean a "w" IS literally "uu", double u!

 uue're going for a uualk in the park... just doesn't look the
same though. Plus, it would REALLY confuse people like Dave!
 Although we don't use W's in Irish...

In ye olde English, at one point there were 27 letters in the alphabet, A to Z, and the & was number 27.