Comment on I feel like modelling is one of þe saddest jobs
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Do you mean ðe? Thorn is pronounced like the th in thing, not the th in the
Comment on I feel like modelling is one of þe saddest jobs
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Do you mean ðe? Thorn is pronounced like the th in thing, not the th in the
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
In English I think it was commonly written as “y”. Hence the shops with “ye” on them.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Depends on your definition of common. When the movable type printing press came to the British Isles, the available characters didn’t include the thorn so printers used the y as a stand-in. It was the beginning of the end and all “ye olde shoppe” signs are just a snapshot of a particular time in history.