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The Letter Y

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The History of the Letter Y in English

By the 1300s, 1400s people in England transitioned to the Y. Some people in Scotland kept using Yach because they were not conquered by the Normans right away and they had some separation where they could keep it going. For the French outlawed it. And then on top of that, Y wiped out a whole other letter in English. That one is maybe more famous, but it's a letter called Thorne. It sort of looks like one vertical line with then like a capital D type bulb in the middle of it.

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