SC - (Non-cooking related really) Tweet / Selected Trivia

[Christi Redeker]

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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