Sjmarf to Lemmy [email protected] • 2 months agoEnglish, oldimagemessage-square60arrow-up1622arrow-down16
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink36•2 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•2 months agoYup, England had a Frenchaboo period after 1066 that lasted quite a while
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 months agowhy did you just repeat the same thing twice?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 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”
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”