The following Canadian letters have a distinct property in common. Can you tell what it is?

a b c g i j o p q r t u y

From the above set, a further breakdown into two groups is possible. The first group contains the letters a, c, and g, while the second group contains the rest. The separating factor is related to the common property that all the letters share. Can you get that too?

I was thinking along the same lines as Bryan, and I checked all the Canadian provinces, territories, and their capitals, with no luck. On the other hand, I also remember Cory saying that the 'Canadian' part was a hint that may be useful to Can-Am solvers, but wasn't crucial to the problem, so I doubt it has anything to do with that.
French uses the same Latin alphabet as English, but some letters can be modified with accent marks and symbols. These symbols, though, only modify the vowels a, e, i, o, and u, as well as c.

Other common methods used in puzzles like this one, such as the number of strokes required to draw each character or the number of curved or straight lines in each (or the capital letters), number of syllables or rhymes when saying the letter, all fail. I was thinking of maybe the way the letters themselves are pronounced in French, except I don't know how that is (I only speak English and Spanish). Past that, I have no bright ideas...

Posted by DJ on 2003-08-22 23:01:10