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From: ceejl@cee.hw.ac.uk (Joachim Lous)
Subject: Re: English importation of words (was Re: Is '#' a "pound sign" or what?)
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:39:42 GMT
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Quoth Linda Reynolds:
: On 7 Mar 1996, Cindy Kandolf wrote:

: > The English alphabet used to include two letters, thorn and eth,
: > which represented the "th" sounds. 

: Yes once again.  However, the eth and thorn look nothing like y. I wish I 
: could reproduce them here, but suffice it to say that one looks like a 
: crossed d and the other, like a p and b combined.

In ISO 8859/1:
	,  - thorn
	,  - edh

Does anyone apart from the Icelandic use them anymore?

: > The people who write "Ye Olde Shoppe" these days are writing "Ye"
: > instead of "The" out of simple ignorance. 

: That's for sure!

Unless of course it's a subtle insult aimed at anyone reading the sign and
finding it 'quaint'.  

Hmm, maybe I'll start using it myself...

-Joachim "f**k off, ye olde shoppe!" Lous.




