Comment on English, old
*ye olde
Always mad that typesetters got lazy, and we dropped Thorn from our alphabet. Everyone is all “ye olde English” snark snark…that’s cause they dropped thorn and used y instead…it’s still a Th sound…god…why can’t you people be nerds?!
They weren’t lazy, they were French, IIRC
Yup, England had a Frenchaboo period after 1066 that lasted quite a while
why did you just repeat the same thing twice?
it annoys me so much how people say “yee oldee”, it’s literally just supposed to be pronounced like normal, but with stress on “the”, like “thee”
dat thorn tho
*þat þorne þough…
*ðat þorne ðough…
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IndiBrony@lemmy.world 8 months ago
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Always mad that typesetters got lazy, and we dropped Thorn from our alphabet. Everyone is all “ye olde English” snark snark…that’s cause they dropped thorn and used y instead…it’s still a Th sound…god…why can’t you people be nerds?!
rockerface@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They weren’t lazy, they were French, IIRC
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yup, England had a Frenchaboo period after 1066 that lasted quite a while
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
why did you just repeat the same thing twice?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
it annoys me so much how people say “yee oldee”, it’s literally just supposed to be pronounced like normal, but with stress on “the”, like “thee”
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
dat thorn tho
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 8 months ago
*þat þorne þough…
rockerface@lemm.ee 8 months ago
*ðat þorne ðough…
itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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