David,

Actually, you can use letters later in the alphabet and succeed, too. The first several letters (through 'j'?) are reserved as default alias names for open tables. It is risky to use these letters by themselves as object names.

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>c = CREATEOBJECT('adodb.connection')
>c.Open("Any valid connection string")
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>The error is:
>"Unrecognized command verb" on the second line.
>
>Replacing the variable c with any variable longer than one character works.