Where's my Y? What Y, I know you're asking. I'm not talking about chromosomes, I'm totally happy with my XX chromosomes
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I'm talking about the Y on my keyboard. I have a black keyboard with the letters printed in white on it. At least they
were once on it. Some letters are gone because my fingers pushed the respective key so often: E, R, T, I, O, A, S, H, L, Y, and N. The D, U, W and the C are barely visible anymore, but still there.
Hubby told me yesterday he can't work with this keyboard anymore, it drives him crazy. That's what got me into taking a closer look which letters are missing. I was surprised to see the Y gone. We barely use Y in German - but of course it's common in English. Same with the letters C and K. In German, the K is far more often used than the C, but yet the C is almost gone from my keybord, while the K is still intact.
Two morals from this story:
First, you can draw conclusions about the main language used by the state of abrasion of different letters on a keyboard.
Second: buy regular, grey keyboards with black letters. I never had them vanish.