How many letters are there in the alphabet?
How many letters are there in the alphabet? Sounds simple right? Well not. Let us point a few things out like:
– What are your first thoughts about this question?
– What does the question actually mean?
– Consoling you on how it is okay to make mistakes
What are your first thoughts about this question?
– They are probably asking you about the alphabet in general, but no, you are wrong. Sorry to admit that but yeah.
What does the question actually mean?
Now if you will re-read the question, again and again, you understand what they are trying to ask you. Let’s read the question again, “how many letters are there in the alphabet?” now they are emphasizing on how many letters are in ‘the alphabet’. They are asking you that. So, there are a total of 11 letters in ‘the alphabet’.
Consoling you on how it is okay to make mistakes
We know that you understood that they meant that what is the total number of the alphabets in general and you answered 26 and got it wrong. But it is okay to make mistakes like that because it is important that you learn from it.