DS 5/6 /a0q Enolish Mphabct gut Malla dah > elyilreduction, |. The English alphabet consists 26 Jtters. ; 1. Each Iter has ax upperease (“capital letter’) and @ lowercase (“small Mer) form. 3. Five of the Jetlers it the Enafish Alphabet are Vowels; A ? E , T,0, U. 4. The vemaining 21 |eteys are consonants: B > Cc ey ye. F,G.H,I,K,L,M,N,P,Q,R S_> Ws VX, Z and usually Wand Y. 5. Two letlers, A and I alse constthite words. 6. Until Fairly recently (until 1835), the 27! fetter ot the alphabet right ter "z°) was the rsanol (€). 7. We English Alphabet is based athe Latin seript, sshich is the basic sek of letters common to the various alphabets originaling, Srem the classical Latin alphabet. 8. There are 44 sounds ja English: 24 corisonant sounds ie 20. vowel sounds 44 4. In British English we soy Zed, 10.In foe wes Zee. Il, Tie English word “alphabet cones from the first two fees ihe Greek cht alpha, bel a 12. The letters tori} always represent the same sounds of English: