Dear Mr. Cornwell, I’ve just finished reading The Winter King and it absolutely fascinated me. Usually I don’t read this kind of books, this time too I was lent it by a friend who adores your books. But now I definitely count it as one of my all-time favourites. It’s a coincidence that being an English major I have History of the English Language classes this term where we also deal with the Old English language. To tell you the truth, I’ve never been very good as far as Linguistics concerned but your novel changed this and now I’m looking forward to my end term examination that constitutes of a pronunciation test in which I’ve become very interested indeed thanks to your book. So much that even my own teachers can’t seem to answer my questions. Somehow I’m extremely interested in the Old English pronunciation of the letter “y”. We sometimes pronunce it as “i” and at other times as “ü” the way French people pronunce the letter “u” today. I wonder whether you have any friends who could explain me the possible rules of pronunciation of the letter “y”. Yours sincerely (and definitely very grateful if you could give me some answer to my question), Melinda Mucsi from Hungary