Ever Wonder where 'ye olde' comes from? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Aquaticedge · #1 04-22-2012, 09:26 PM

Have you ever wondered where "Ye Olde" spelling comes from? [VIDEO] kinda cool history

elchivito · #2 04-22-2012, 10:31 PM

Interesting. Now we can all stop saying Yee when we read that word and just say "the" like regular persons. Thanks!

The Clk Man · #3 04-22-2012, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

Interesting. Now we can all stop saying Yee when we read that word and just say "the" like regular persons. Thanks!

What "Ye" hell are you talking about.

cmbdiesel · #4 04-22-2012, 11:44 PM

And all this time I thought Hallmark invented it, like Thanksgiving.

strelnik · #5 04-23-2012, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel

And all this time I thought Hallmark invented it, like Thanksgiving.

You mean Yanksgiving?

elchivito · #6 04-23-2012, 10:12 AM

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You mean Yanksgiving?

Ha! I yought yat was funny

S124300 · #7 04-23-2012, 11:23 AM

Interesting. Lol.
Ye Olde is definitely pronounced as Yee oldy in English, English. I know because I've lived there.
Another point about the Norman French invasion language change is that it was slow to catch on in the Danelaw areas (the traditionally Viking / Norse parts of Britain) where numerous place names and words are still obviously Nordic influenced: Huddersfield: Thorngumbald: York, etc, even if the spellings are modernised.
Old English (from the middle ages) is a language as different to modern English as Swedish or Norwegian.
"Chop Gate" is a place that I've passed through, but how do you think it is really pronounced?

cmbdiesel · #8 04-23-2012, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by S124300

Interesting. Lol.
Ye Olde is definitely pronounced as Yee oldy in English, English. I know because I've lived there.
Another point about the Norman French invasion language change is that it was slow to catch on in the Danelaw areas (the traditionally Viking / Norse parts of Britain) where numerous place names and words are still obviously Nordic influenced: Huddersfield: Thorngumbald: York, etc, even if the spellings are modernised.
Old English (from the middle ages) is a language as different to modern English as Swedish or Norwegian.
"Chop Gate" is a place that I've passed through, but how do you think it is really pronounced?

Chopyat. cheated and googled it

I'm just glad I don't often have need to pronounce Welsh place names

Carleton Hughes · #9 04-23-2012, 11:49 AM

This is quite frankly bulls***. Wilian Caxton is generally acknowledged to as the first printer in England in the late 15th century. Below is the title page of a book printed in the 1470's-1480's....Kindly notice the plentiful and grammatically correct use of THE.....rather than YE, which was no more than a regionalism and by the the 1490's was already out of fashion in the leading intellectual circles.

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cmbdiesel · #10 04-23-2012, 12:01 PM

well, sounds like it's back to the Hallmark theory....

SwampYankee · #11 04-23-2012, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

This is quite frankly bulls***. Wilian Caxton is generally acknowledged to as the first printer in England in the late 15th century. Below is the title page of a book printed in the 1470's-1480's....Kindly notice the plentiful and grammatically correct use of THE.....rather than YE, which was no more than a regionalism and by the the 1490's was already out of fashion in the leading intellectual circles.

I KNEW I saw it somewhere!