N's the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English 's spelled en. History of the forms One of the most common snake hieroglyph was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like English “J,” because the Egyptian word for “snake” was djet. It's speculated that Semitic people working in Egypt adapted hieroglyphics to create the first alphabet, and that they used the same snake symbol to represent N, because their word for “snake” may hav… (More on N)