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Ye olde
"Ye olde" is a pseudo-Early Modern English stock prefix, used anachronistically, suggestive of a Merry England, Deep England or "old, as in Medieval old" feel. A typical example would be ''Ye Olde English Pubbe'' or similar names of theme pubs.
==History==
The anachronistic use of "ye olde" dates at least to the late 18th century, as seen in the image at below right (image 1908). The use of the term "ye" to mean "the" is based in Early Modern English, in which ''the'' could be written as ''þe'', employing the Old English letter thorn, ''þ''. During the Tudor period, the scribal abbreviation for ''þe'' was 10px (or "þe" with modern symbols); here, the letter is combined with the letter .〔''Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary'', retrieved February 1, 2009〕 Because and look near-identical in medieval English blackletter (as the in 10px compared with the in ''ye''), the two have since been mistakenly substituted for each other. The connection became less obvious after the letter thorn was discontinued in favour of the digraph . Today, ''ye'' is often incorrectly pronounced as the archaic pronoun of the same spelling.
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