I witnessd the representation of a burlesque tragedy called Die Belagerung von Ypsilon (the siege of Ypsilon), but I could not at all comprehend the cream of the jest.

I witnessd the representation of a burlesque tragedy called Die Belagerung von Ypsilon (the siege of Ypsilon), but I could not at all comprehend the cream of the jest.

Y, when the Romans first borrowed it from the Greeks, was called Ypsilon; and Z, from the same source, was called Zeta; and, as these two letters were used only in words of Greek origin, I know not whether they ever received from the Romans any shorter names.

Ix, Ypsilon, Zeta."

And this I suppose to be the most proper way of writing their names in Latin, unless we have sufficient authority for shortening Ypsilon into Y, sounded as short i, and for changing Zeta into Ez. OBS.

numb.; borrowed first by the Romans from the Greeks, by whom called Ypsilon in Eng. is either a vowel or a conson. classed with the semivowels final, changed or unchanged before terminations do., when, by former practice, retained in verbs ending in y, before conson.