Every image in this quiz has something sneaky in common - the first letter of their names.Your task is to look closely at the ...

As it happens, that’s not a Y, or, at least, it wasn’t supposed to be. Originally, it was an entirely different letter called thorn, which derived from the Old English runic alphabet, Futhorc.

So here at last is that column about Y that you’ve probably been expecting. A good place to start is with a very quick look at where the penultimate letter of our alphabet came from.