It’s called “thorn”
Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles
Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months agoAlso “ye” in olde English is just pronounced the. It’s wasn’t a y it was used for the letter thorn which made the th sound. They never said ye. So there’s no way the Spanish would translate to fake old english
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
athos77@kbin.social 10 months ago
Eh, technically, if the word following 'the' starts with a vowel sound, you're supposed to say tge-with-a-long-e - the apple, the orange, the event, etc.
Pipoca@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ish.
There’s ye as in “hear ye, hear ye”. That’s a y. It’s an inflected form of you, much as they had both thee and thou.
Then there’s writing þe as ye.