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:Have you read the 2nd paragraph?  Languages that don't have y have to use i instead, so that, for example, 'yen' in Portuguese is 'iene' - [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 18:05, 20 December 2007 (CST)
:Have you read the 2nd paragraph?  Languages that don't have y have to use i instead, so that, for example, 'yen' in Portuguese is 'iene' - [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 18:05, 20 December 2007 (CST)
::Do *all* languages do that?  Is this generalization true for every case?  --[[User:Robert W King|Robert W King]] 18:12, 20 December 2007 (CST)

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I'm not sure that "y" is another version of "i". That doesn't explain words like You, Your's, Yuck, Yippie, Yes... --Robert W King 16:48, 20 December 2007 (CST)

Have you read the 2nd paragraph? Languages that don't have y have to use i instead, so that, for example, 'yen' in Portuguese is 'iene' - Ro Thorpe 18:05, 20 December 2007 (CST)
Do *all* languages do that? Is this generalization true for every case? --Robert W King 18:12, 20 December 2007 (CST)