Q: How was the definite article that we now see in the faux-archaic names of ye olde shoppes actually pronounced in Old English and Middle English when it was written with a thorn? A: The article “the” was originally spelled se in Old English and pronounced like a clipped version of “say” without the glide […] The post A thorny question? first appeared on Grammarphobia.
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