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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: Elsa Primo
<<a href="mailto:elsa_primo@yahoo.com">elsa_primo@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Algorithm for amount of letters in alphabet<br>
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( <a href="mailto:kay_cole@operamail.com" target="_blank">kay_cole@operamail.com</a>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> FORMULA: Why
there is about 24 letters per alphabet on average in BRITISH
ISLES</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> Mnemonic: "NIGER"</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> If we look at
VIKING RUNES....'NORWEGIAN" we see "16" letters...FUTHORK</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> IRISH
OGHAM......................20 TREE-NAMED LETTERS</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> GERMANIC RUNES
(OLD FUTHARK) is 24</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> ENGLISH
RUNES...(FUTHORC) 28</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> & "REYKJAVIK"..modern
Islandic orthography uses 32 LETTERS</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">16+20+24+28+32=120 DIVIDED
by FIVE gives us TWENTY-FOUR just as w/ GREEK!</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> Now...why these
numbers? ALL DIVISIBLE by FOUR. Northern Europe
had FOUR-SEASON calendrical OBSERVATIONS. And also THERE are APPROXIMATELY 24
or</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">approx. ONE FOURTH of ONE
HUNDRED ....PRIME NUMBERS. That being said we</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">know very well how we have
had 22 letters and 26 letters and everything in-between.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Today we use our alphabet to
AUGMENT our NUMBERS for use in IDENTIFICATION CODES.When the ancients delved
into the PHYSICAL SCIENCES they discovered that </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">MATH & LANGUAGE theory
were very much ALLIED and this shows how we seem to always come back to
somekind of arrangement wherein there are 24 letters for clarity. Spanish uses
those many...French...and of course DUTCH and DANISH. In fact</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">there are EXACTLY 24 sounds
to GERMAN! So...we could use the RUNES! "ING=OE?"</p>
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