Talk:English alphabet/Archive 2

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References

Hello everyone!

I was doing an evaluation exercise and I couldn't help but notice that there don't seem to be many references or external links to outside resources in this article. In fact, there are only seven references presently. I just wanted to point out that there needs to be more outside information from reliable sources in this particular article. Lbkr99 (talk) 16:30, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review

Add more info and references on the proposed reforms tab — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nbennett14 (talk • contribs) 01:38, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

The 25-letter English alphabet

A note in another W. article stated that a 25-letter English alphabet somehow excluded the letter "J". If this is factual, it should be added to the article; for I found no mention of a 25 word alphabet by searching for the number "25". Misty MH (talk) 15:56, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

What article? There might be space for more discussion, or some clarification about the history of the alphabet, but I don't know if there was a notable 25-letter English alphabet. If you read the article, it says "The letters u and j, as distinct from v and i, were introduced in the 16th century, and w assumed the status of an independent letter", so you're talking about an alphabet that included u and w but not yet j, which would be odd. I've worked with early printed English, and seen works that used used u and v, and i and j as positional variants, but not one that used u and v as modern letters but not j.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:28, 13 February 2019 (UTC)