On 2006-11-04 20:53, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no word "ye", and there never was. > > Word origins is a hobby of mine, and I found it pretty difficult to > figure out where "ye" came from, because it never existed. > > What _did_ exist, was a letter in old English called a "thorne". The > thorne looked a lot like a capital "Y" (with a horizontal line through > it) and had the sound of "th". When the thorne fell into disuse, > later readers would think sentences said "we went to Ye bar to drink > wiY friends". > > Since "the" is liable to be the most common word in the English > language, this fell into a more general belief that in olden times, > the word "ye" was used instead of "the". > > Anyway, it's a bit of non-BSD trivia. Sorry for the noise to those > who aren't interested, and sorry that I don't know enough about groff > to help fix your problem.
Quite interesting trivia, nevertheless. Thanks for taking the time to write all this down :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
