LL-L: "Traditions" LOWLANDS-L, 08.MAR.2000 (04) [E]

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From: Edwin Michael Alexander [edsells at idirect.com]
Subject: LL-L: "Traditions" LOWLANDS-L, 08.MAR.2000 (01) [E]

At 07:31 AM 03/08/00 -0800, Jan De Craemere wrote:

> "In lepe yeare, ilk mayden ladye of bothe highe and
>lowe estait shall hae liberte to bespeke ye [sic] man she likes."
>
>Should that not be written 'the man ...", as the symbol "y" was pronounced
>and is nowadays written "th"?
>(As in "Ye olde book shoppe" and other would be ancient names of shops).

Precisely - that's why I added the [sic] following it.  And to think that I
didn't know that myself until the subject came up here last October!

Ed Alexander
JAG REALTY INC.
80 Jones Street Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8R 1Y1
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Jag Realty Inc.: http://www.deerhurst.com/jag/
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