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The capital U, made thus Y, which resembles a bird flying.
“[The birds] flying, write upon the sky
“The biforked letter of the Greeks.”
Longfellow: The Wayside Inn, prelude.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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