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The first English-language book to make a clear distinction between I and J was published in 1634 (Ref). Its use in the English alphabet followed, the letter J was the last of the 26 letters to be added to the English Alphabet. Its emerging distinctive use dates back to Middle High German, originally being a typographical flourish or swash character on the Roman i. The Italian: Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478-1550) was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds in 1524 with his "Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian language." [Ref: Hogg, Richard M.; Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, Suzanne Romaine, R. W. Burchfield, John Algeo (1992). The Cambridge History of the English Language. Cambridge University Press. pp. p.39. ISBN 0521264766. http://books.Google.com/books?id=CCvMbntWth8C.]

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In the year 1011, a writer named Byrhtferð ordered the Old English alphabet for numerological purposes. He listed the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet first, then 5 additional English letters, starting with theTironian note ond (⁊) an insular symbol for and:A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z & ⁊ Ƿ Þ Ð Æ

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No one knows, but it first started appearing in Western Europe around the 15th Century, and was standard in English by 1634.

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The formal distinction between J and I was established in the 17th Century.

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All letters of the English version of the Latin alphabet entered at the same time, except for J, U, and W.

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It first started appearing in Western Europe around the 15th Century, and was standard in English by 1634.

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It was a modified i, that entered the alphabet around the 15th Century.

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All letters entered the English alphabet at the same time, with the following exeptions:

J, V, W, Y

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the early 1900's around 1920

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