Nope, languages evolve. For example, these days embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word.
On Oct 18, 5:30 pm, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any chance of these letters making a comeback? > > I could try and introduce þem into my communication and see if oþers > notice > an perhaps follow suit. > > After that I would like to see if I could get "Huzzah!" to make a > comeback. > > On Oct 18, 4:13 pm, Eric Jablow <erjab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Oct 17, 11:38 pm, Miroslav Pokorny <miroslav.poko...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Actually there were two th letters, thorn and the other escapes me, one > > > looked like a horizontally flipped "6" with a horizontal bar 1/4 of the > > > way > > > down from the top which is how ye old shoppe came about. > > > U+00D0 Ð LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH (voiced th) > > U+00F0 ð LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH > > > The 'ye ' in 'ye old shoppe' was always pronounced 'the', but it comes > > from the letter thorn instead: > > > U+00DE Þ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN (unvoiced th) > > U+00FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN > > > Eric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
