Odd Facts we didn't know

[Phanerothyme 12]

Seeing as its the Bayeux Tapestry, can't see this being true

 

I'm struggling to detect any irony in your post, sorry,

[Phanerothyme 12]

Louis (14th)

 

'The Sun King'

 

Or in this one.

 

 

Still, I thought it a pretty humorous vignette.

[johncocker 10]

when you see ye as in" ye olde curiosty shoppe or ye olde cheshire it's not said how you think. That isn't actually a Y, it's a thing called a 'thorn' that looked like a Y. Thorns are shorthand for TH and are pronounced TH. So Ye is pronounced correctly as the. I've even seen in old documents 'Y~t' meaning 'that' and Y~y meaning they.

[Phanerothyme 12]

Þ

 

þat doesn't look much like a Y to me!

[Plain Talker 11]

Þ

 

þat doesn't look much like a Y to me!

 

ah, but according to wiki:-

 

The modern digraph th began to grow in popularity during the 14th century; at the same time, the shape of thorn grew less distinctive, with the letter losing its ascender (becoming similar in appearance to the old wynn (Ƿ, ƿ), which had fallen out of use by 1300) and, in some hands, such as that of the scribe of the unique mid-15th century manuscript of The Boke of Margery Kempe, ultimately becoming indistinguishable from the letter Y. By this stage th was predominant, however, and the usage of thorn was largely restricted to certain common words and abbreviations. In William Caxton's pioneering printed English, it is rare except in an abbreviated the, written with a thorn and a superscript E. This was the longest-lived usage, though the substitution of Y for thorn soon became ubiquitous, leading to the common 'ye' as in 'Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe'. One major reason for this is that Y existed in the printer's type fonts that were imported from Germany or Italy, and thorn did not.

[Jeffrey Shaw 93]

English law (in the 1400s) allowed one to beat one's wife with a stick no thicker than a thumb. Hence 'the rule of thumb'.

[johncocker 10]

English law (in the 1400s) allowed one to beat one's wife with a stick no thicker than a thumb. Hence 'the rule of thumb'.

 

 

it didn't take long to evolve into ""under her thumb ""did it !!

[Annie Bynnol 614]

The Bayeux tapestry is an embroidery.

And is done in the style and technique used in England at the time -about 1070.

[regatta 10]

Louis (14th)

 

'The Sun King'

 

Why did they call him the sun king, was he always on holiday like our lot at the tax payers expense.

[fruitisbad 10]

I can lick my elbow

[johncocker 10]

petrol used to be used to put out smoldering cotton bales in the hold of a ship

[gnvqsos 10]

Seeing as its the Bayeux Tapestry, can't see this being true

 

Well spotted-you may now pass GO and collect 56 lottery tickets.