(related to Problem: An Acrostic Puzzle)
There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet, giving $325$ different pairs. Every one of these pairs may be reversed, making $650$ ways. But every initial letter may be repeated as the final, producing $26$ other ways. The total is therefore $676$ different pairs. In other words, the answer is the square of the number of letters in the alphabet.
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