Wednesday Night Klub Run (WNKR 2015) - a bit like TNRC but not on a Tuesday

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Ramsaye

Taps screen, no sign of @Oliver Schick

I don't know Y the why works.

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middleofnowhere in reply to @Ramsaye

Taps screen, no sign of @Oliver Schick

I don't know Y the why works.

@Oliver Schick is probably getting annoyed at me @-ing him all the time, I just see him as the go-to person for all language based issues (which is a pretty broad remit). Anyway, the Y is not a Y but a thorn, the old English letter for the th sound as often mispronounced in Ye Olde.

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Ramsaye in reply to @middleofnowhere

Yanks for yat explanation for us yickos.

Even if we already knew ye reason.
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Oliver Schick in reply to @middleofnowhere

I didn't work that out, either, I thought it was meant to stand for 'yobs'.

It's a good job you spelled it 'old English' and not 'Old English'. The Old English letter Þ was only changed to Y by the hand of some scribes after the Old English period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29

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