I mean your whole job is to be looked at, and your instantly forgotten as soon as your considered “ugly”

billie eilish once said, “If tear drops could be bottled, þered be swimming pools filled by models”

  • JackGreenEarth
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    1421 days ago

    Do you mean ðe? Thorn is pronounced like the th in thing, not the th in the

    • Chris
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      1121 days ago

      In English I think it was commonly written as “y”. Hence the shops with “ye” on them.

      • FriendOfDeSoto
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        921 days ago

        Depends on your definition of common. When the movable type printing press came to the British Isles, the available characters didn’t include the thorn so printers used the y as a stand-in. It was the beginning of the end and all “ye olde shoppe” signs are just a snapshot of a particular time in history.