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TIL in Romance languages like French and Italian, the letter Y is not phonetically named (i.e. "wy"), but is instead called 'Greek I' ("i grec"/"i grego"), as it was only ever used in Classical Latin to transliterate the letter upsilon (υ/Υ)

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