Yogh
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yogh-162-13719217
title:
Yogh
text:
The letter yogh (ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y and various velar phonemes. It was derived from the Insular form of the letter g, Ᵹᵹ. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh. In Middle Scots, the character yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts. Consequently, some Modern Scots words have a z in place of a yogh—the common surname Menzies was orig
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Letter of the Latin alphabet
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh
date created:
2001-12-07T17:29:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T22:46:20Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Latin_letter_Yogh.svg","width":450,"height":300}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16