The alphabet once had 27 characters.

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    Not really. It had only 24 characters.

    In Middle English, the "27th character" was &, and represented "and", it was not itself a letter. It was not used in words to symbolize a phonetic sound.

    But in Middle English, the alphabet was lacking U, J, and W.
     
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