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    Y is this letter pronounced the way it is?

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    Because we need it.  Double "L" is pronounced the same way in Spanish, guess they need the sound of it, too.........

    A-E-I-O-U AND SOMETIMES -Y      Y-KNOT?? WOODEN U???


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    valR

    very viny - oops :( - funny :)

    Just in case you were a real curious type too, I found something...


    Y - Quoting Wikipedia: Old English borrowed Latin Y to write the native Old English sound /y/. When the letter came to be analyzed as a V atop an I (First Grammatical Treatise), it was renamed VI (/u: i:/), which was simplified to one syllable (/wi:/), and by the Great Vowel Shift became Modern English 'wy'.

    ROMOS

    I was going to say that, but I'm an old Scottish, just next door to the old English.

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    Vinny

    I use 'old English' to polish my furniture.
    valR

    i use the polish vernacular to polish my furniture...


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