On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:15:10PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
>
> Here's a brief article about how the "y" in "ye" is a misspelling
> of the "thorn" (þ) character:
> 
> http://www.bartleby.com/68/15/6615.html

Here's another article mentioning that "y" was used in place of
thorn on printing presses that didn't have the latter character:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/10/Y0011000.html

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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