If you don’t count repeats, there are only seven different letters in “the alphabet”: T, H, E, A, L, P and B. Now you see why this question catches so many people off guard. If you said ...

in the Cyrillic alphabet, “H” makes a “n” sound. Even when the shape and sound of a letter stay the same within a single language, the letters themselves can have different names.

CHARLI SUCGANG: (Singing) H, I, J ... shook when a video with clay letters and a different version - gasp - of this song went viral. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ALPHABET SONG") MATT: (Singing) I ...

All letters of the alphabet have been used apart from I and Q. The original design included Q (as shown in top image) but was later replaced by Z . Amsterdam based project development corporation ...