# đź“š Y is for \[...\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Discussions\ **Tags:** glossary\ **Created:** [13 December 2024 09:17 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944 "2024-12-13T09:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simon\_tomes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/simon_tomes/32/14009_2.png) [@simon\_tomes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/simon_tomes)\ **Post date:** [13 December 2024 09:17 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/1 "2024-12-13T09:17:50Z")
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 […]”? ---
**Author:** ![fullsnacktester](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/fullsnacktester/32/13479_2.png) [@fullsnacktester](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/fullsnacktester)\ **Post date:** [13 December 2024 10:04 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/2 "2024-12-13T10:04:54Z")
Y is for Yes. For example in input testing, Yes, No, Maybe, Null. ---
**Author:** ![fullsnacktester](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/fullsnacktester/32/13479_2.png) [@fullsnacktester](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/fullsnacktester)\ **Post date:** [13 December 2024 10:06 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/3 "2024-12-13T10:06:45Z")
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](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving) And my post: > **[How many Yak’s have you shaved this week?](https://www.dowen.me.uk/posts/how-many-yaks-have-you-shaved-this-week/)** > > A quick bonus post today, I’m enjoying writing long-form posts weekly, but I wanted to sneak in a little one, enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![bobs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/bobs/32/8768_2.png) [@bobs](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/bobs)\ **Post date:** [14 December 2024 21:36 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/5 "2024-12-14T21:36:16Z")
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? > **[The five lost letters of the English language](https://readable.com/blog/the-five-lost-letters-of-the-english-language/)** > > Most of us know the English alphabet backwards and forwards. We learned our letters as children and we forever have the ear-worm of song stuck in our heads, but did you know that there were actually a few letters that didn’t quite make the cut for... ---
**Author:** ![bobs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/bobs/32/8768_2.png) [@bobs](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/bobs)\ **Post date:** [14 December 2024 21:39 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/6 "2024-12-14T21:39:56Z")
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](https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/datingdocuments/juliangregorian.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![kristof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/kristof/32/10839_2.png) [@kristof](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kristof)\ **Post date:** [14 December 2024 21:46 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/7 "2024-12-14T21:46:17Z")
- YAML … that’s it XD besides X this is probably the hardest one ---
**Author:** ![mahatheed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mahatheed/32/10871_2.png) [@mahatheed](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mahatheed)\ **Post date:** [7 January 2025 14:10 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/8 "2025-01-07T14:10:59Z")
Yardstick Yield Y-cordinate Yagni ---
**Author:** ![mikeharris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mikeharris/32/12295_2.png) [@mikeharris](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mikeharris)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2025 10:02 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/10 "2025-01-21T10:02:25Z")
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: [Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn](https://kbjanderson.com/learning-to-lead/) ---
**Author:** ![ramanan49](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/ramanan49/32/15686_2.png) [@ramanan49](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/ramanan49)\ **Post date:** [4 February 2025 13:13 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/11 "2025-02-04T13:13:16Z")
YAML Yield Yes You Yeah Yep ---
**Author:** ![sebastian\_solidwork](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/sebastian_solidwork/32/11076_2.png) [@sebastian\_solidwork](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/sebastian_solidwork)\ **Post date:** [4 February 2025 13:47 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/y-is-for/80944/12 "2025-02-04T13:47:29Z")
Yikes! That shouldn’t happen!