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Instead of writing the words father, mother, witness, son, or daughter, the minister may have used f, m, w, s, or other letters. | Instead of writing the words father, mother, witness, son, or daughter, the minister may have used f, m, w, s, or other letters. | ||
===Yogh=== | |||
Yogh (ȝogh) is an old letter which may be encountered when looking at some very old documents. It resembles the number 3 or a cursive Z. This represents a "y" sound. | |||
Later the yogh was turned into Y. It ended up fossilised as a Z in some words and names. MacKenzie and Menzies, for example would have originally been written with a yogh. | |||
=== Dates === | === Dates === | ||