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Edgar Allan Poe in a moment of writer’s block

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The tell-tale kidney / The tell-tale bladder / The tell-tale spleen / The tell-tale duodenum / The tell-tale stomach

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  • poopkins@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Your comment sent me down a rabbit hole researching the thorn character, þ, and today I leaned:

    [With] the arrival of movable type printing, the substitution of ⟨y⟩ for ⟨Þ⟩ became ubiquitous, leading to the common “ye”, as in ‘Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe’. One major reason for this was that ⟨Y⟩ existed in the printer’s types that were imported from Belgium and the Netherlands, while ⟨Þ⟩ did not. The word was never pronounced as /j/, as in ⟨yes⟩, though, even when so written.

    Thanks, that was an interesting read!

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      You found my most favoritest runic trivia! I chuckle every time I see “Ye Older Shoppe” now, because even in my head I still read it “yee”.