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From: koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: National alphabets
Summary: Dutch ij as y.
Message-ID: <2640@alpha.cam.nist.gov>
Date: 23 Feb 90 17:34:25 GMT
References: <1261@shelby.Stanford.EDU> <1064@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> <1070@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
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In article <1070@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>, eykhout@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
> 
> About the 'i-j' in Dutch.
> 
> In a way this is a variant of the English 'y'. The Dutch term is
> the 'long y'. Let's consider it as a broken-up, dotted, y.
> 
Actually, to inject a historical note, I have noticed that ij is usually
printed as y in French, German, and English language references to Dutch
names in at least the early 1800s.  I don't know anything else about the
history of this orthographical practice.