How many such pairs of letters are there in the word 'PARTICLE' (in both forward and backward directions) which have as many letters between them in the word as there are in the English alphabetical order?

Consider the following sequence of words: GNP TKS CVR DMB FQZ How many letters are there in the English alphabetical order between the first letter of the second word from the right and the second letter of the first word from the left?

If each letter of the alphabet is assigned a numerical position value starting from A = 1 to Z = 26, what is the sum of the positional values of the letters in the word 'IWE'?