On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:05:18 +0100, Bob Henson
wrote:


Equally interesting (to me, anyway) is the letter "thorn" in old
English. The old runic letter came to be written as "Y" - so "ye old
inn" was actually pronounced "the old inn" at the time, and eventually
came to be written as the digraph that we know now.


Yes, I always pronounce that "ye" as "the." Probably 99% of those who
name their stores like that think I'm wrong and it should be "ye."
They don't realize it's a thorn, not a "y." Come to think of it, most
of them probably don't realize there ever was a thorn.