Comment on English, old

• SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?!

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They weren’t lazy, they were French, IIRC

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    • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup, England had a Frenchaboo period after 1066 that lasted quite a while

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      why did you just repeat the same thing twice?

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  dat thorn tho

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  • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    *þat þorne þough…

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      *ðat þorne ðough…

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      • juliebean@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        i don’t know why “þorn” always gets so much more love on ðe internet ðan “eð”. ðey’re boþ cool letters.

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      • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Þæt and þēah… unvoiced. Spelled with þorne, not eð.

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    • itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hot.

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