If you're Dutch, "ij" is a technically a single letter, and may sometimes be written as "y". (Traditionally, Dutch words are sorted alphabetically with "ij" tr

If you're Dutch, "ij" is a technically a single letter, and may sometimes be written as "y". (Traditionally, Dutch words are sorted alphabetically with "ij" treated as if it were "y". On my first visit to Amsterdam, pre-Google Maps, I had the bizarre experience of standing in one of the main streets, Vijzelstraat, but being unable to find it on my map. Its index of streets has nothing starting "Vij...". I sheepishly had to ask someone wtf was going on. He pointed me lower down to the end of the "V"s where all the "Vij..." street names were hiding!)