• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact:

    “Thou” and “you” were the same word.

    The “th” sound used to have its own character in written English called the thorn. When typefaces came along, it was excluded and sometimes replaced with a “y.”

    Also why “Ye” and “The” are the same.