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In print, NO. You really can't interchange the two. As already said, in handwriting they may look similar, however we would never mean the actual ÿ, since it si
by hbogert 10y ago
In print, NO. You really can't interchange the two. As already said, in handwriting they may look similar, however we would never mean the actual ÿ, since it simply is something else which is used in Greek and French (and others).
There's even a section about this on wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digraph) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digraph) subsection "technical details".
- pygy_ 10y agoAt the very least it happens in Flanders. I've seen ijs ("ice") capitalized in cursive as Ys[0] on an ice truck, for example. Edit: from Wikipedia[1]: "It used to be common, in particular when writing in capitals, to write Y instead of IJ." So it's an obsolete practice... ---- 0. something along those lines: http://alphabetprintables.org/alphabet_printables_cursive/uppercase/alphabet_cursive_letter_y.jpg http://alphabetprintables.org/alphabet_printables_cursive/up... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_%28digraph%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_%28digraph%29