10 Letters We Dropped From The Alphabet

Think you know the English language? Here are 10 letters folks used to use, but didn't quite stand the test of time. Elemenopee, my homies.

[Kirio_Dorito]

My friend: Who is your favourite Pokemon trainer?
Me: Æ.

[krealyesitisbeta]

English: *Stops using old letter*
Icelanders: “Come, you have a new home now.”

[minnabaru]

"putting two Us together"
W
Double...U?
Scribes: *_perfection_*

[nazarkosarenko]

Chapter suggestions, because this is exactly the kind of video for which it doesn't make sense in the slightest to not have them:
0:00 - Intro
1:14 - ʃ (Long S)
2:27 - & (Ampersand)
3:15 - Þþ (Thorn)
4:11 - That [This one appears to not have any Unicode symbol]
4:33 - Ðð (Eth)
5:07 - Ææ (Ash)
5:42 - Œœ (Ethel)
6:10 - Ƿƿ (Wynn)
7:00 - Ȝȝ (Yogh)
7:37 - Ŋŋ (Eng)
8:24 - Outro

[beanjuice]

“10 letters we dropped from the alphabet”

Me: ok so something like z”

*ok so t h o r n*

[humanbeing]

“It’s just a D with a line through it!”
Q: *sweats nervously*

[glitchyx]

I remember as a kid I used to take "W, X, Y & Z" literally and I actually thought "&" came after Y and before Z. It's funny to know that I was actually close to right lmao

[khangphan]

'Đ' is an actual letter in the Vietnamese alphabet, and it is used to make the "TH" sound, lowercase 'đ'
edit: i did not say that this is the same Đ as the one in the video

[scoreunder]

Did you know:
ß (German "eszett" or sharp S) is the combination of long "s" and normal "s" into one letter.
& (ampersand) was originally a combination of the letters "et", spelling out the Latin word for "and". In the past, "&c" was a common spelling of "etc".

[vnnd]

5:35 the “Æ” is actually an “Ä” in German and its used very often.

[norky]

Teacher: How many letters are in alphabet?


Me: 36....

[HFIAPY]

"W, X, Y, &, Z"
It is already under our noses...

[yesnt]

Replacing “thing” with “þiŋ” sounds really satisfying though

[cas]

"The long s"
Germans: hold my ßeer

[rasmusvanwerkhoven]

So “You” Can now represent “You” and “Thou”? Neat!

[RandomName]

I still use ampersand when writing by hand, though not when typing. Ampersand simply makes writing quicker and easier, plus everybody understands it!

[maipetallis]

I knew a girl named Aeden and she told me that her name was illegal because it was actually spelled Æden and that letter can’t be used on a birth certificate

[_RayNotHere_]

Ethel: hi
Me: hi œ
Ethel: what is œ
Me: its ethel

[limediamond]

Person: W X Y and Z

People trying to be smart: “and” isn’t a letter.

Me, an intellectual: actually,

[VariableFoxx]

In Russian, there is also a letter that looks exactly like the number 3. It makes the sound “z”. There is just a slight difference between them though. З 3. The first one is the letter, and the second one is the number.