HYTHE, Mtn (AS., haven). A market-town and parliamentary borough in Kent. England. 14 miles south of Canterbury. Ilythe is a favorite seaside summer resort, and the seat of the na tional school of musketry (Map: England. 11 5). It has an interesting church. partly Norman and partly Early English. Under the chancel is an extraordina ry collection of human skul s a nd bones —ninny of the skulls having deep cuts in them: their age and origin are uncertain. but they are reputed to be the remains of Danes slain in a battle fought about 1000. Ilythe owns its water works. It is one of the Cinque Ports, but through the silting of its harbor has become removed half a mile from the coast. Population, in 1R91, 4347; in 1901,5557; population of parliamentary borough in 1891, 35,547; in 1901, 46,663.
... The ninth letter in the alphabets of / Western Europe. its form in the Pha•li chin and early Greek alphabets, from which it is derived, somewhat resembled a narrow upright Z. (See AtamABET.) After various modifications this was straightened into its present shape. The Greek designation, iota, of the letter is an adaptation of its Phomieian name yod, 'a hand.' Ihe dot over our small i did not come into use se until the fourteenth century.
Piton:Tic Cll.% RACTER. The 'short i' in Eng lish is described as a high-front or palatal vowel, made by the blade of the tongue approximating the forward part of the palate or roof of the inguth—the sound heard in 't. When approxi
mated so far as to make a partial contact or closure, this passes over into a semi-vocalic or consonantal y, as in you (iu), although in Eng lish the y is often not written, e.g. minion, other variations may be noticed in charity, bird. The corresponding 'long i,' common in European languages, is found in machine, police, pique. This is sometimes known as the 'long e' sound in receive, believe, seat. The sound commonly called 'long i' in English, wide. ice, and the name of the letter itself ( i pronounced eye), is really a diphthong, like aisle, made by premature opening of the lengthened vowel under stress-accent. This phonetic change from the older character of the sound was going on during the :tliddle Period of transition into the Modern English. so that it is now a phonetic rule that Anglo-Saxon or Old English i regularly calls for a diphthongal long i in modern English, e.g. OE. 'teid, mu ...- Mod. Eng. wide, mile. Ilistorieally the linguistic char acter of i is fairly stable, Indo-Germ. • tad/iced, Skt. ridli,ird, 'widow,' hat. ridua, °Church Slay. AS. irilleire, Eng. widow; or Gk. ()Ivor for rams.). 'wine,' Lat. rinum, A.S. win, Eng. wine. For the of I and J, see J.
As a S ymbol.—I in the Roman notation stands for I: in chemistry I = in logic t is symbol of the partial affirmative proposition.