Table of Contents. 1  1899â1913: Defending U.S. International Interests. 2  The Philippine-American War, 1899â1902. 3  Secretary of State John Hay and the Open Door in China, 1899â1900. 4  Japanese-American Relations at the Turn of the Century, 1900â1922. 5  Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. There are 21 consonants in the alphabet including y. Vowels are considered to be: a, e, i, o, u There are 26 letters in the alphabet. 26 - 5 (letters considered to be vowels) = 21.
Part of what makes English difficult to learn is that each letter in the alphabet can represent more than one sound. Plus, since the alphabet only has 26 letters yet represents 44 sounds, many English phonemes are represented by two or three letters working together to represent one sound. Thus, learning just the alphabet sounds would be an incomplete approach to learning English. This video simplifies the American English code by providing just one graphic symbol (via a single letter OR double or triple letter team) for each of the 44 phonemes and 4 blends.