Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1913 — THE VARIETIES OF YPSILANTI. [ARTICLE]

THE VARIETIES OF YPSILANTI.

Curious postal officers in Michigan and Washington have been keeping for yean past a record of the different ways Ypsilanti has been ■polled on mall matter, according to the Detroit Free Press, and by comparing the notes they have preserved a Hat of veritable ortographta wondon has been compiled. This list easily establishes the claim that ■sore different ways for spelling Ypsilanti have been devised than ter spelling any other geographical name In America. In all no lees than BTB distinct ways of spelling the name have been counted, and it is probable that the greater number, perhaps all, have been used in good faith by persons who actually believed that the orthographic combinations reproduced were the correct combinations for representing Ypsilanti on the written or printed page. Every letter la the alphabet except “R” has been used as the initial letter of the name, though why so obvious a combination as Rypeilanti should bo neglected when others much less obvious have been employed is difficult to explain. As a matter of fact, the variations in the spelling are chiefly confined to the first syllable, "Y" being a letter lacking or having only an indifferent standing in many foreign languages. Tipsy Lanti and Zyp Silanti are mot with, and among the spellings furthest away from the accepted and official standard are Whypsorlanter and Hipasalandder.