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Re: [Phys-l] OT Re: "Unlearning"



A queen's subject friend (ca 1967) explained it as an old English letter yclept** thorn (it's shaped like a rose thorn) and as JC wrote th.

Google confirms this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet



** Middle English, e.g. Chaucer

bc got a B from Marvin Mudrick (Chaucer)

http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/?p=407


On 2010, Sep 11, , at 08:21, John Clement wrote:


Another good one for Bob's consideration: "Hear ye, hear ye" - a fine
archaic English phrase.... :-)
[I understand that "ye" is also outvoted in the G poll.]
There is a distinct possibility that the original was Hear thee. The old
English thorn, a Y with a dot, was prounounced as th, and has been
misinterpreted later as a Y. Then maybe not.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

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