COMMUNE OF Y
SHORTEST NAME IN FRANCE. Fifteen communes in Franco have names of only two letters. There is Sy, in the Ardennes Fa, in the Landes By in the Doubs. Bu. 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 the Pyrenees Orientates. Gy in the HautoSaonc, Eu in Seine Inferieure, Ry in Seine-et-Oisc, 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. 1166, it. got itself called I. In 1215 it was back to Hay and My. Its present short name dates from 1584.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1939, Page 6
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179COMMUNE OF Y Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1939, Page 6
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