digression: There is no ye (was Re: what happened to groff?!!)

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:56:07 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, This roff script is in a directory with ye-olden-English font, 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

Re: digression: There is no ye (was Re: what happened to groff?!!)

2006-11-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:53:21PM +, Bill Moran wrote: On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:56:07 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, This roff script is in a directory with ye-olden-English font, There is no word ye, and there never was. Word origins is a hobby of

Re: digression: There is no ye (was Re: what happened to groff?!!)

2006-11-04 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 4, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:53:21PM +, Bill Moran wrote: On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:56:07 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, This roff script is in a directory with ye-olden-English font, There is no word ye, and

Re: digression: There is no ye (was Re: what happened to groff?!!)

2006-11-04 Thread Reed Loefgren
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:53:21PM +, Bill Moran wrote: On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:56:07 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, This roff script is in a directory with ye-olden-English font, There is no word ye, and there never

Re: digression: There is no ye

2006-11-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
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