THE COMMUNE OF Y
Fifteen communes in France have names of only two letters. There is Sy, in the Ardennes, Fa ; in the Landes, By in the Doubs, (Bn, in Eure-et-Loir, 00, Haute-Garonne, Oz, in Isere, Ay is in the Marne, Re, in the Orne, Hy in the Hautes-Pyrenees, Py and Ur, in in the Pyrenees Oxientalea. Gy is the Haute-Saone, Eu in Seine-Inferienre, Ry in Seine-et-Oise, and Us, in the same department. But the commune with the shortest name of all, consisting of one letter, is in the Somme, and is called Y. It has only 121 inhabitants. Many people seeing the name at the entrance to the village—every village in France has its sign board with its name—take it to. be merely a sign of a bifurcation of the highroad. Y, however, did not always possess so short a name, for in documents of 1126 it is called Hii. Once, in 1166, it got itself called I. In 1215 it was back to Hay and Hy. Its present short name dates from 1584.
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Evening Star, Issue 23355, 26 August 1939, Page 7
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196THE COMMUNE OF Y Evening Star, Issue 23355, 26 August 1939, Page 7
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