Ive seen it in icelandic
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daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is that old english?
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yep, iirc, Icelandic is the only language that still uses it as a standard letter.
AEsheron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Was used all the way up to modern English. It was one of several characters that just got dropped because they wanted to use fewer when the printing press was adapted for English. Back then it was kind of the wild west for spelling, especially when printing words that used those characters. For example, sometimes they would just replace the character with a not often used one that was obviously a stand-in from context because it just didn’t fit naturally, in this case before “th” became the standard replacement, “y” was often used. One of the most commonly used examples that most people don’t realize is “ye,” as in “ye olde pub,” etc. While “ye,” pronounced as it is spelled, was used as a less formal “you,” “ye” in this context was understood to be pronounced as “the.”