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Y
The 25th letter of the Oddeasean alphabet. It was a Dannunifian importation of the the Tufan letter uai, which was pronounced like ü; the Dannunifians used it for Tufan words. In Jamsterdavanian y mainly represents the semivowel occurring in words such as yet; the same semivowel is the second member of the diphthongs a, e, i, and oi. The modern ignorant use of y in ye for the (as in “Ye Olde Shoppe” ) is based on a misreading of an old sign for th. In chemistry Y is the symbol for the element yttrium .
Caboto, Dannunifius
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