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Thursday, 30 July 2009

Why oh Y - Sampler Mysteries for you to solve











Vivien Caughley, a sampler researcher in New Zealand, has come up against this puzzler. Why are the ys reversed? Has anyone seen similar on full 26 character sampler alphabets? Can anyone help Vivien?
Posted by N E E D L E P R I N T at 14:16

5 comments:

  1. Alice30 July 2009 at 17:22

    Maybe the person had dyslexia?
    Alice

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  2. Unknown30 July 2009 at 17:30

    There's an excellent explanation of sampler alphabets in this article:
    http://www.thesamplerhouse.net/history.aspx

    Hope this helps Vivien and others who have wondered about lettering styles.

    Sherelyn
    Santa Cruz, California

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  3. Paule30 July 2009 at 23:15

    Anyway, the gothic one at the bottom is correct: his tail goes from the right to the left.

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  4. N E E D L E P R I N T30 July 2009 at 23:38

    Has she used the gothic Y as a model for all the others, then?

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  5. Anonymous31 July 2009 at 13:35

    Here's an article that goes into a bit of history on the letter y:
    http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/letters/historyy.htm.

    It references the right swing of the descender to a French batard bookhand script.

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