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From: Franz-Dietrich Freiherr von Recum <>
Subject: y-ij
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:01:29 +0200 (MEST)

Can't remember who and what name it was,
but there was a discussion here about a mysterious change of Y->IJ.
This of course is a typical Dutch matter, there the pronunciation of Y and
IJ are identical (a bit like 'i' in ice in English).
So may be the person had Dutch contacts, someone misunderstanding the Polish
"y" and miswriting it into 'ij', the modern Dutch way.
Best regards
Freiherr von Recum.

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