Elizabethan Alphabet

Elizabethan alphabet contained 24 letters, as opposed to the present day alphabet of 26 letters. The "j" was usually used as the capital form of the "i"in the alphabet. The "u" was used only in the middle of a word, and the "v" was used at the beginning. Elizabethan alphabet was that there was another letter which resembled a "y" which was used to represent the "th" sound. So the word "the" was written in a similar way as "ye" would in the present day.