Comment on I feel like modelling is one of þe saddest jobs
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
In English I think it was commonly written as “y”. Hence the shops with “ye” on them.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 10 months 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.