Need to select only words

Hi,
I have a simple question, i have a column with a lot of non-word entries. All i need to select from that column are entries which are valid english characters. I tried this but this does not work:
select a from abctest where not (regexp_instr(a, '[A-Z|a-z]+')= 0);
and a few other variations. But to no avail. Can anyone help out here...
Some of the entries i need removed are like have 'inverted question marks' in them - which might have gotten there due to some encoding issues. But i dont need them in my result. any help would be appreciated.
thanks

Hi,
For DB version below 10g it can be achieved as below
SQL> with data as(
2      select '143abd' as col from dual union all
3      select 'abd' as col from dual union all
4      select 'abd32' as col from dual union all
5      select 'ab4ed' as col from dual)
6      select col from data
7      where nvl(length(translate(upper(col),'*ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','*')),0)=0;
COL
abd

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