Trivia about letters. Please help!?

Question

I need trivia about letters of the alphabet. Examples:

Q is the only letter that never appears in the name of any sate in the US.

V is the roman numeral for 5. Beatoven's fifth symphony begins da-da-da-duuuum. Morse code for 5 is dit-dit-dit-daaah.

Bert is the President of the "Lovers of W" club

Thanks for anything!!

Answer 1

Q and Z did not appear on traditional telephones.
The Roman numeral for this year is MMVII.
The word "aitch," which is defined as the letter H, was given in the 1998 National Spelling Bee.
E, followed by T, is the most used letter in the alphabet.
R, S, T, L, N, and E are given in the final round of Wheel of Fortune.
The first letter Vanna White spun in WoF was a T.
W is the only letter whose English name is polysyllabic.
"Alphabet" comes from the Greek names of A and B, alpha and beta.
J is the most recent addition to the English alphabet.
Y can be considered a consonant or vowel.
X is used to replace "Christ" in "Christmas" because the Greek letter X (Chi) is the first letter of the Greek for "Christ."
Harry Truman's middle name was S.
O is the name of Oprah Winfrey's magazine.
The Roman numerals, in order from smallest to largest, are I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.

Answer 2

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

The alphabet song is from a French folk tune "Ah! Vous Dirais-je, Maman", which is also the melody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep"

One out of every eight letters used in written English is an e.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.

There are only three words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum and continuum.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

In written text, the most frequently used letters, in order, are: etaoinshrdlu

Answer 3

The letter B probably started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-semitic alphabet.

Answer 4

The old English letters "u" and "v" In the Elizabethan alphabet the old English letters "u" and "v" were used as the same letter (interchangeable). The letter "u" was used only in the middle of a word, and the "v" was used at the beginning! In the Elizabethan alphabet the old English letters "i" and "j" were used as the same letter (interchangeable) The "j" was usually used as the capital form of the letter "i" in the Elizabethan alphabet Another letter which resembled a "y" was used to represent the "th" sound The word "the" was therefore written in a similar way as "ye" would in the modern day The written form of Elizabethan Numbers also cause confusion in translation! Numbers were frequently written in lower case Roman numerals, with the last "i" in a number written as a "j". For example - viij March There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. Vowels: A, E, I, O, U Consonants: H, K, L, M, N, P, W In Shakespeare's King Lear, Z is used as an insult. A character is called "Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter!" (II.ii), intimating that Z (in Shakespearean English at any rate) is a useless letter, like the person on the receiving end of the insult. The original ancestor of Y was the Semitic letter Waw, which was also the ultimate origin of the modern letters F, U, V, and W. The earliest form of the letter W was a doubled V used in the 7th century by the earliest writers of Old English In Roman numerals, the letter V is used to represent the number 5. It was used because it resembled the convention of counting by notches carved in wood, with every fifth notch double-cut to form a "V". Up until the 19th century, 'V' preceded 'U' in the alphabet. "U" is used in many words, and in modern internet slang, it is short for "you". The original form of s may have represented a picture of a tooth, or possibly that of female breasts.

Answer 5

It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter J (representing non-syllabic I) and the letters U and W (to distinguish them from V) were added to the English alphabet

Answer 6

di-di-di-dah is the Morse code for V. Just as convincing however.

I seem to recollect that some radio stations broadcast di-di-di-dah during WW II to represent "V for Victory". I am not sure where it was used.

Answer 7

Actually, Harry Truman did not have a middle name. The military gave him the inital "S."

Answer 8

IF YOU SEE KAY


Tell her I love her

Answer 9

"J" is a relatively "new" letter