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wtbob on March 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program...

> ye ole Lines of Code paradigm

Little-known fact: the *y in old signs is actually a 'þ', which is an Old English letter named 'thorn' and pronounced like modern 'th.' Thus, the old books & signs were really just saying, 'the.' Incidentally, þ is still used in modern Icelandic.

Completely off-topic, but I þought you might be interested.

mreiland on March 24, 2016 [–]

holy shit, I had no idea. That's cool.

edit: and I double checked, because the internet :)

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ye

it's true! that's awesome.

wtbob on March 25, 2016 | [–]

I really þink ðat we ought to use þ and ð in modern English, but oddly enough no-one agrees wiþ me:-)

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