English alphabet has 27 letters and it is leaving people shocked!
How many letters are there in the English alphabet? This might sound like a simple question, and you already know the answer¡ª26. But what if things are not that simple and the answer is wrong? It turns out there are 27 letters in the English alphabet, and Z is not the last one.
27th letter?in English alphabet
The 27th letter in the English alphabet is called Ampersand and is written as '&'. According to a TikTok user who goes by the username @zachdfilms3, the ampersand is the 27th letter. "Ampersand is the 27th letter. This is an ampersand, and believe it or not, it used to be the 27th letter in the alphabet. You see, back in the day, this symbol came after the letter Z and signified the word 'and'," he said in a recent viral video.
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What happened to 27th letter?
"But when reciting the alphabet, students weren't allowed to just say 'and' after Z. Instead, they were taught to differentiate the symbol by saying 'per se' before it, which sounded something like this: Q R S T U V W X Y Z &. And 'per se &' ampersand," he added.
Used until 1835
According to some reports, & was part of the English alphabet until 1835 when it had 27 letters. However, this practice ceased in 1835, and now, in modern-day English, the alphabet consists of only 26 letters.?
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Evidence of '&' being used as a letter in the English alphabet can be found in some books as late as the 1860s.
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