At 11:39 -0700 2004-05-23, Robert Wheelock wrote:
><W> had an original name of 'wynn' from Anglo-Saxon--before it
>got one on the Latinate 'double-u' or 'double-v' formula.

I think you'd want to prove this. I rather doubt that <W> was called "wynn".

>Similarly, <Y> obtained its current name 'whaye' by modern English

"Wye", not *"whye".
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