“Ye Olde”

I love that language is messed up. The title of this post is a great example of people openly and mistakenly mispronouncing words. This one is based on the consequences of early printing presses originating from Germany. It’s never been pronounced with a ‘y.’ Mispronounced, though? Yes. Our language had more letters and one of them was the TH symbol which was spelled like a b with a line down the bottom of the left side. Having no easy way to represent the symbol, printers opted to use a’y’ to represent the letter that didn’t exist on their printing presses. And because language is formulated to allow us to decipher visual symbols into ideas and sounds, of course people pronounced it incorrectly.

X

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