Y is for Years.
Years in testing. Years to test that boundary value. Years that leap that cause problems. Years of an amazing career opportunity.
What else can you come up with for “Y is for […]”?
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Y is for Yes. For example in input testing, Yes, No, Maybe, Null.
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Y is for Yaks, like the Yaks one must shave in order to get to the main work.
See: yak shaving - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
And my post:
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Þ which is not Y but can be confused for it. It’s the letter thorn, which used to exist in English but doesn’t any longer. Things like Ye Olde … are actually The Olde… because it’s a thorn and not a Y and thorn is pronounced like th.
This is all a roundabout way of saying - what happens if someone tries character sets or symbols you’re not expecting?
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Also, don’t forget about the brilliant switch between Julian and Gregorian calendars, which meant that several days just didn’t exist one year in the UK:
In Great Britain, the new calendar was adopted in September 1752. In order to deal with the discrepancy of days, which by now had grown to eleven, it was ordered that 2nd September 1752 would be immediately followed by 14th September 1752. This explains why our financial year begins on 6th April. The official start of the year used to be Lady Day (25th March), but the loss of eleven days in 1752 pushed this back to 5th April. Another skipped day in 1800 pushed it back again to 6th April.
From Julian/Gregorian Calendars - The University of Nottingham
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- YAML
… that’s it XD besides X this is probably the hardest one
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Yardstick
Yield
Y-cordinate
Yagni
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Isao Yoshino - the Toyota executive whose career Katie Anderson’s book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn is about. If you want to learn about leadership this book is a good place to start:
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