ALL the UK electoral rolls -letters

[tali1]

if you took ALL the UK electoral rolls since records began(ie EVERY electoral roll book) how many letters would they roughly contain in total?

[NORMANTHEDOG]

billions

[Tim Baxter]

26

[dot.hawkes]

the electoral roll as we now know it only began in the early 1900s, before then there were varying Burgess Rolls etc which could be considered the same or pre empting the electoral roll. why do you ask? it is an odd question, do you know what the electoral roll consists of?

[weecalf]

They contains 4 letters

[dot.hawkes]

well i thought they would contain at least 26 wee calf actually

[tali1]

no its not a trick question! - just trying to find out a fascinating /trivia piece of useless info :)
someone has counted the cells in our body and the stars in the galaxy, so why not all the letters in the electoral roll?
(btw 26 is a bit of levity from the posters)