![]() Its later forms resembled a blackletter y, and it was never pronounced with a y sound. "Y" represents an obsolete character ( þ, the letter Thorn, which is nowadays used only in Icelandic) for the th sound. 14 The pub itself (including nicknames)Īlthough the word "the" appears on much pub signage, it is ignored in the following examples the word "ye' is likewise ignored as it is only an archaic spelling of "the".
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