Yammering Y

Submit Y sentences by Wednesday, November 23, using comments on this post.

Origins: ? (1)
Greek: upsilon
Frequency: 18th most frequent letter in English (2)
"Y" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "At the beginning of words, is a consonant; at the end, and when it follows a consonant, is a vowel, and has the sound of i. It is used at the end of words, and whenever two i’s would come together; and in words derived from the Greek, to express the u. Y was much used by the Saxons, whence y is found for i in the old English writers." (3)