| Show yell ye Is pronounced chuh 11 the tha ay y in I 1 ye yell Is simply a substitute for the anglo saxon thorn them letter so BO called which we have no way of getting into this column that anglo saxon letter like the corresponding sp icelandic character stood for th the encyclopedia britan nia alca says bays the english letter thorn survived and continued in use down to the fifteenth century when it was transformed to y 1 As for the pronunciation ot of yel ye meaning the it is ot of course as near as we can put it into printers ink thull today as was in Chau cers time and long before nobody who speaks english ever pronounces the as it if it spelled thee but gives it the same sound as the e has in the corresponding french word just as the french pronounce ie jour luh juh zhour so be Is the day daf pronounced chuh day the class Is now dismissed manitoba llanito ba free fress |
