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David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

... just as the seeming Fs in the early printings of "Paradife Loft" were pronounced as "S" : "Paradise Lost" then as now. — PolitiTweet.org

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Observation prompted by an audiobook: When you see in an old book the letter "y" where we'd use "th" ("ye olde ...etc"), that letter was not *pronounced* as a "y." The substitution was just a printer convention to make typesetting easier. "Ye" was pronounced "the" ... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tomeclarke: @davidfrum The Y here is really a thorn (Þ), that eventually came to look like 'Y' before it was replaced with 'th'. — PolitiTweet.org

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