“Y” did I write this piece, you might ask? The letter is an important component of my first name. The letter “Y” has been in the English alphabet since its origin (sometime around the 7th century A.D.

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Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us grew ...