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Old April 12th 06, 05:39 PM posted to alt.talk.weather,uk.sci.weather
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Default Ane Update to ye Prefeptf of ye Yndegatigable WeatherLawyer


JPG wrote:


Why did you not use the long 's' - ſ , instead of 'f'

Also, the letter 'thorn' - ð (upper case - Ð) for "th" instead of 'Y'
- still used in Icelandic and Faeroese. It was one of the variations
of ðorn that used to look like a 'Y' that produced the (incorrect)
usage of 'Ye' for 'The'


Þ and Ð are two different letters, it was the Þ that became Y later
in English.
Faroese only uses Ð, check out www.dimma.fo

(I shouldn't encourage him, really!.

Martin