The surprising truth about 'Ye Olde...'

[killianobrien]

Þe letter þ needs to return, who's wiþ me?

[ChristopherSibert]

I can't wait to get into an argument about this with a stranger at a bar.

[godofchaoskhorne]

Holy shit that's actually extremely interesting especially as a writer.

[ryankane]

Damn I’m honestly surprised I didn’t know that, thanks for sharing

[tabc]

Omg thank you! I’ve been telling people for years and no one believed me

[SameAsAnyOtherStranger]

This seems like something my time travel agent should have told me about.

[Rose-jzix]

I love all you do. You encourage this senior citizen to keep on learning.

[jedrzejpyzik]

That's fascinating - I was always wondering what's up with the ye 🤣

[jannetteberends]

The thorn is still used in Iceland. Books from Icelandic authors, like Arnaldur Indriðason, always have a short notice how to pronounce þ and ð in Dutch translations.

[rundownthriftstore]

“Hey Harold we have the weird P shaped letter that we don’t use anymore, should we just change it to a P?”

“No do a Y”

[wesleychapman]

In parts of Northern Ireland, we don’t say yonder, we say thonder. “Thonder peasant, who is he...”

[cloud-ipku]

bro, you’re the most British looking
person I’ve ever seen

[pcampbell]

Thanks for this. This was one of my peeves. Even did my senior thesis on this just to get it out there.

[edinfific]

This reminds me of a Family Guy episode where the guys opened their own pub and wrote "Ye Olde Pube". 😅

[applesushi]

I’m pretty sure “Ye Olde Steak House” is the one here in Knoxville, TN. My dad would pronounce it “Ye Oldee Steak Housee” and I still do today.

[Gudha_Ismintis]

You are a UK national treasure Rob - thank you

[NotInMyRepublic]

Derby County fan. Thanks for the content. Subscribed.

[andydolphin]

Still can't get over the Rams shirt. COYR! The Old Dolphin is a fine pub

[playerone]

Thanks, now I've adjusted the colour of my custard to "Thellow" 👍

[theanxious]

Nice, I had no clue! I instantly thought you were going to say it was pronounced "Yay" myself 😆