Discussion of Question with ID = 1229 under Alphabet-Number-Series

This is a series of digits and alphabets. How many pairs are such that the consecutive items are both alphabets?

U 7 Y 5 3 9 3 T V 1 X E 1 6 8 A P O I 2

At these locations: T-V ;X-E ;A-P ;P-O ;O-I ;