SC - (Non-cooking related really) Tweet / Selected Trivia
Christi Redeker
Christi.Redeker at digital.com
Mon Nov 24 14:57:39 PST 1997
Hello everyone!
Thought I would pass this on for the new cooks out there. Thorn is represented by most of the cooks on the list as a paragraph symbol (which I can't access on my system, don't know why) but this is the same reasoning as listed below!!
Murkial
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Subject: Fw: Tweet / Selected Trivia
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: : 15. The "y' in signs reading "ye Olde..." is properly pronounced with a
: : voiced "th" sound, not as "y." The "th" sound does not exist in Latin,
: : so ancient Roman-occupied England used the rune "thorn" to represent
: : "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press, the character from
: : the Roman alphabet which closest resembled "thorn" was the lower-case
: : "y."
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: =^.,.^= aka Lord Yvon Bater of Darkwood / TWEET =^.,.^=
: A Good Pun, Is it's Own Reword !!
: [ A BAD PUN is EVEN BETTER ! ]
: { Admitted Ailurophile }
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