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The Letter Y

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Importance of Y in English

The consonant letter Y invaded England with the Normans and then eliminated multiple existing English letters. In some other languages, like German, they do a whole nother way of referencing this. The German name for the letter Y is Oopsilon. It's just exactly a German sounding way of saying up salon.

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