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Old 02-26-2002, 05:10 AM   #8
datalas
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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"Ye Olde Systems Administrator"? hmmm......
"Ye" is not correct English anyway, the word is derived from the old english letter combination of "thorn-e" where "thorn" ( I cannot remember if that is the correct spelling or thorn) was an old english letter meaning "th" in pretty much the same way as Germans have a double S character. The letter looked similar to a Y and if miss printed (as things often were) could easily be mistaken for one...

Hence "Ye" was / is / should always have been / willen be once mode always spelt / pronounced "the"

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