 Y - Codes for computing: Encyclopedia - YY is the twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is wy, sometimes spelled wye.
See V. In Ancient Greek Υψιλον (Ypsilon) was pronounced IPA [u], later on [y], now [i]. The Romans borrowed Y directly from the Greek, because they felt that V no longer adequately represented Greek [y].
The letter Y was used in Old English, as in Latin, with the value [y]; however, some think that this use was an independent invention in England created by stacking a V and an I, unrelated to the Lati ...
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