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From: (Irene Newhouse)
Subject: Re: German Language-Letter y
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 18:38:27 +0000 (UTC)


I beg to differ. I have found umlauted y in records from Breslau, now
Wroclaw, Poland, where ij is not normally used & you're pretty far from
the Netherlands. Sometimes the 2 dots
were left off, making it clear that y WAS the intended letter. Further,
study of the handwriting revealed that the scribe began a y
in a different manner from i, and the umlauted entity began like a y, not
an i. The modern spelling of the name in
question uses simply an i. It seemed to be a style of 10-20 years'
duration around 1800, in a period in which spellings had not settled down
to a single 'correct' version.

Irene Newhouse

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