Posted by IsoM on March 8, 2002, at 15:32:06
In reply to th sound, posted by beardedlady on March 8, 2002, at 13:44:34
> Did you know there used to be a symbol for those two letters? It looked like a fancy Y. People who are trying to be clever and nostalgic will call their businesses "Ye Olde Shoppe," when they really should be calling them, "The Olde Shoppe."
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> Thorry. But I had to put in my two thenth.
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> beardy : )>Interesting - no, I didn't realise that there was a letter for the "th" sound.
How about people calling their daughters Caitlin & pronouncing it as kate-lin when it's real pronunciation is Kathleen. I've read of other pronunciations of it but a friend from Wales told me she always knew it as the Kathleen sound.
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