Re: Is this just an English thing ?
olde wordes
And the terminal or penultimate 'e' was never pronounced (so it's not 'oldie') but instead are used to emphasise the preceding letter..
So "The Olde Shoppe" isn't pronounced as "the oldie shoppie" but "the old shop"
(I like Þ - we should bring it back..)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
