Comments on: Ye Old Shoppe Shops http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=490 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: Stargzer http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=490&cpage=1#comment-160510 Stargzer Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:46:03 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=490#comment-160510 A THORNY SITUATION I've adopted the thorn for use as a smiley with the tongue sticking out. On a WinDoze keyboard it's really easy to remember: ALT+0222 using the numbers on the Numeric Keypad. If you have a laptop without a numeric keypad, you'll have to turn on NumLock and use a funtion key to access the equivalent to the keypad { &*( for 789, UIO for 456, JKL for 123. and M for 0}, so, with NumLock on, on a laptop hold down the ALT and Fn keys and type MKKK. Þ :-Þ A THORNY SITUATION

I’ve adopted the thorn for use as a smiley with the tongue sticking out. On a WinDoze keyboard it’s really easy to remember: ALT+0222 using the numbers on the Numeric Keypad. If you have a laptop without a numeric keypad, you’ll have to turn on NumLock and use a funtion key to access the equivalent to the keypad { &*( for 789, UIO for 456, JKL for 123. and M for 0}, so, with NumLock on, on a laptop hold down the ALT and Fn keys and type MKKK. Þ

:-Þ

]]> By: Brn http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=490&cpage=1#comment-159358 Brn Wed, 26 May 2010 14:12:13 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=490#comment-159358 Well, actually, that is exactly what I said, when I said 'The y in “ye” actually would have been pronounced “th”', so I'm not sure what you said is any different. And the article I cited explained that printers used y for thorn and that thorn is still used in Icelandic. And I still think that this is interesting. Well, actually, that is exactly what I said, when I said ‘The y in “ye” actually would have been pronounced “th”’, so I’m not sure what you said is any different.

And the article I cited explained that printers used y for thorn and that thorn is still used in Icelandic.

And I still think that this is interesting.

]]> By: Robert Beard http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=490&cpage=1#comment-159323 Robert Beard Wed, 26 May 2010 02:32:10 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=490#comment-159323 Well, actually, when printers stopped using thorn (Þ), many substituted Y for it. That is where "ye" for "the" came from. Thorn was (and still is in Icelandic) pronounced [th], so pronouncing "ye" in "Ye Olde Antique Shoppe" as [yee] is actually an error. It should be pronounced [thee], just like "the". Well, actually, when printers stopped using thorn (Þ), many substituted Y for it. That is where “ye” for “the” came from. Thorn was (and still is in Icelandic) pronounced [th], so pronouncing “ye” in “Ye Olde Antique Shoppe” as [yee] is actually an error. It should be pronounced [thee], just like “the”.

]]> By: Brn http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=490&cpage=1#comment-159322 Brn Wed, 26 May 2010 01:51:35 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=490#comment-159322 I agree that that "shoppe" isn't interesting, but the "ye" because the phrase "ye olde shoppe" is pretty much the only remaining instance of the letter thorn in modern English. The y in "ye" actually would have been pronounced "th". More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29#Modern_English. I agree that that “shoppe” isn’t interesting, but the “ye” because the phrase “ye olde shoppe” is pretty much the only remaining instance of the letter thorn in modern English. The y in “ye” actually would have been pronounced “th”. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29#Modern_English.

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