Two letters, “A” and “I,” also constitute words. Until fairly recently (until 1835), the 27th letter of the alphabet (right after "z") was the ampersand (&). The English Alphabet is based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets originating from the classical Latin alphabet. More @Wikipedia
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