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IMPORTANT NOTICE: This site is scheduled for closure in September 2016.
If you have any comments about the closure, please post them to the newsgroup. See this page for information about the newsgroup and how to post to it. "ye"="the"by Mark Israel
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[This is a fast-access FAQ excerpt.] The "y" here is a representation of the obsolete letter thorn, which looked like "b" and "p" superimposed, and was pronounced [T] or [D] (the same as modern "th"). The pronunciation of "ye" in "Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe" as /ji/, which you sometimes hear, is a spelling pronunciation. [Dave Wilton has an extensive set of word and phrase origins at http://www.wordorigins.org/] |
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