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[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Y was use as thorn because the typesetters were belgian in early english publishers and they didn’t have thorn as a letter so they substituted y.

So what you're saying is, the Belgians stole our thorns!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Y tho?