Yogh
Tuesday 16th October
Today I learnt why Sir Menzies Campbell is pronounced ‘Mingiss’ and as a side effect learnt about a new letter: Yogh (ȝ). I thought I knew my archaic letters, like thorn (þ) which is pronounced ‘th’ and looks like a Y when it’s written in medieval script and is the cause of all those ‘Ye Olde Shoppes’.
But þere you go. Yogh. Who’d have þought it?
[10 points to the first person to point out that 'there' should use eth (ð) rather than thorn (þ)]
Is it because Scotch people can’t talk and or spell properly?
henry
16 Oct 07 at 10:25 pm
‘There’ should use.. Oh.
Rich
17 Oct 07 at 5:16 am
I wonder if that’s why we call ‘em Jocks?
sweavo
17 Oct 07 at 8:47 am
grr. “smart” quotes == “stupid” apostrophes.
sweavo
17 Oct 07 at 9:03 am
Ever come across textile markup? Bloody awful.
Nice that you can easily set italics and so on.
But when you write the following:
You end up with:
and other such annoyance.
stu
17 Oct 07 at 9:25 am
Don’t even GO THERE. Just as HTML starts to actually work, a new generation of kiddies comes along who decides to start from square 1 without knowing rule 1 about parsing!
sweavo
17 Oct 07 at 9:43 am
And you’re right. All stories containing a character called Zippo are interesting.
sweavo
17 Oct 07 at 9:43 am
Is Zippo like “Cher” or “Madonna”? Just one name and not a first/last name?
(Zippo, Cher, and Madonna lunched at a posh restaurant in London last Monday.)
Debster
17 Oct 07 at 12:34 pm
Zippo’s been hanging out with Cher and Madonna? Wow… he never told me!
stu
17 Oct 07 at 12:44 pm
“Zippo, Cher, and Madonna lunched at a posh restaurant in London”
sounds like the opening like to a bad joke
Mr H
17 Oct 07 at 1:47 pm
Zippo, Cher, and Madonna lunched at a posh restaurant in London.
Zippo said “Do you find your mouth fills up with water when it rains?”
Cher and Madonna said…
…wait for it…
“No”.
Hahahahaha.
stu
17 Oct 07 at 1:53 pm
You liar! I was there and they said “Yes”!
Lois
17 Oct 07 at 6:16 pm
Technically speaking, it would have been more like: “Glub, glub, glub” instead of “Yes”.
By the way, Elvis came in later. Did you see him, Lois? He was eating peanut-butter-banana yogurt with real whipped cream.
Debster
17 Oct 07 at 7:36 pm
Totally unrelated, here’s a bloke with great hammer juggling skills:
http://www.halaro.com/under.php?id=426
Rich
17 Oct 07 at 8:03 pm
Wow… good find, Rich.
stu
17 Oct 07 at 8:51 pm