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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Random Fact of the Day:
Old English had a separate letter for the 'th' sound, called
thorn
. It looked like a modern capital 'Y'.
So on an 'old-timey' sign, like "
Ye Old Shoppe
", the word 'ye' is pronounced just like our modern word 'the'. :)
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