Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 8 months agoEnglish, oldsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1618arrow-down16
arrow-up1612arrow-down1imageEnglish, oldsh.itjust.worksSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-squareSturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up36·8 months agoAlways 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?!
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 months agoThey weren’t lazy, they were French, IIRC
minus-squareFrostyCaveman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 months agoYup, England had a Frenchaboo period after 1066 that lasted quite a while
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agowhy did you just repeat the same thing twice?
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoit 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”
minus-squarejuliebean@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoi don’t know why “þorn” always gets so much more love on ðe internet ðan “eð”. ðey’re boþ cool letters.
minus-squareℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoÞæt and þēah… unvoiced. Spelled with þorne, not eð.
*ye olde
* þe 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…
i don’t know why “þorn” always gets so much more love on ðe internet ðan “eð”. ðey’re boþ cool letters.
Þæt and þēah… unvoiced. Spelled with þorne, not eð.
Hot.