Thorn Letter Y

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Thorn Letter Y. Thorn Letter Y. The uppercase letter thornThe thirtieth letter of the Icelandic alphabet written in the Latin script.

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In fact the y in the pronoun would have been spelled with a yogh ȝe rather than a y. þ lowercase uppercase Þ A letter of the Middle English alphabet representing θ or ð. So it was natural that when the word þe appeared in printed books many English printers finding no thorn character in their imported continental type-boxes used a letter y instead.

In the Latin alphabet the Y was the symbol that most closely resembled the character that represented thorn.

Ye Olde Thorn Imgur. Thorn in the form of a Y survives in pseudo-archaic uses particularly the stock prefix Ye olde. Ye Olde Thorn Imgur. The thorn characters are rendered identically to the letter y as it appears elsewhere in the same text.