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The Letter Y

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Origins of Y in English

The French were like, you have to use our language. And then we did. And they're like, oh, you're using our our loser letter. So that's how Oopsalan became a French consonant and an English consonant. It's forced on us. They wanted us to,. I want to remind you that you're losers.

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