The Letter I and J

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This feature is all about "I" and "J". Ever j-walked and got struck by a clever i-dea? ;-)  

If unable to answer a question, you are encouraged to click the link of the article and search for answers there.

I and J

1) True or false: "I" and "J" started out from the same character.

2) The Phoenician sign "yodh" was the ancestor of our letter 
"I". What does yodh literally mean?

3) What is the shape of this Phoenician symbol?

4) When the Greeks used the yodh, what shape did it become?

5) What did the Greeks call this transformed letter?

6) Is this Greek letter the biggest or the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet?

7) What sound does the Phoenician yodh represent?

8) What sound does the Greek version of "I" represent?

9) What sounds does the Latin "I" represent?

10) In what century did a lettering artist added a hook to the "I" to form a letter "J"?



Clueless? Perhaps this link will help.


I-dealistic I, and J-dish J

:-( -> :-| -> :-)

DL
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