'Ye' in names such as 'Ye Olde Inn' was originally pronounced 'the'.
The pronunciation with y is due to a misinterpretation.
'Ye' originated as a second-best way of writing 'รพe', รพ being thorn, the original English letter for the th sound.
Click my new infographic to read the story of thorn:
Thousands of people are expected at Montrealโs Bell Centre Sunday for a rally organized by medical federations demanding the suspension of Quebecโs Bill 2.
One month to go now and counting until our revival of the final 1921 version of Puccini's La rondine at the Barbican - Carlo Rizzi conducts BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers
Our Magda, Ermonela Jaho, of course needs no introduction โจ
The clouds parted, giving me a window to frame the full moon. This was taken with my Canon camera and Tamron 150-600 lens.
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#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposurephotography #longexposure #moon #lunar #photography
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ฮฮปฮฟฮน ฯฮฑฯฮฑฮปฮฏฮฑ, ฮตฮณฯ ฯฮฑฯฮฑฮปฯฯ ฯฯฮท ฮดฮฟฯ ฮปฮตฮนฮฌ.
I'm looking at you! #birds #nature #wildlife #owls
My son doesnโt eat fish. Any alternative? Replace him with a cat. Cats love fish.
Print featuring a shoreline with plants, a blackbird and insects in silhouette in front of sea and a glowing red sun
'Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt
Do you agree with Classic FM's line-up of the 10 best English composers?
Find out here ๐
CATAMAZING...!!!
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Lovely...!!!
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a yellow book cover for Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell with a drawing of a goblet filled with grapes and lemons next to a broken wine glass
#BookWormSat
...every Sunday he took his morning coffee under the fatal tree...During the lunch hour, while we worked on the house, he would take his food and can of wine to the shade of a lemon-tree and tell stories which held the other workmen enthralled.
- Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
That time Family Guy made fun of Dean Cain ๐คฃ
ฮคฮฟฮฝ ฮนฮดฮนฮฟฮบฯฮฎฯฮท ฯฮฟฯ ฯฮฑฯฯฯฮฟฯ ฮฝฯฮฌฮดฮนฮบฮฟฯ ฯฮฟฯ ฯฯฯฯ
CATAMAZING...!!!
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#BookwormSat ๐ #WhiteWillow
In Celtic lore, white willows shimmer under a full moon, sacred to Brigid for healing & poetry. Fairies dance beneath, luring mortals to the Otherworld. A willowโs whisper inspires bards, but beware its fairy paths! #treelore #Celitc
The Wishing Tree by Kathleen Jamie I stand neither in the wilderness nor fairyland but in the fold of a green hill the tilt from one parish into another. To look at me through a smirr of rain is to taste the iron in your own blood because I hoard the common currency of longing: each wish each secret assignation. My limbs lift, scabbed with greenish coins I draw into my slow wood fleur-de-lys, the enthroned Brittania. Behind me, the land reaches towards the Atlantic. And though Iโm poisoned choking on the small change of human hope, daily beaten into me look: I am still alive โ in fact, in bud.
I stand neither in the wilderness
nor fairyland
but in the fold
of a green hill
the tilt from one parish
into anotherโฆ
โKathleen Jamie, โThe Wishing Treeโ
SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)
#BookWormSat #poem
Hear โThe Wishing Treeโ on @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social
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Painting of giant Oak trees at Lullingstone Park, autumnal colours.
โWhen I came out of the oakwood, back to human company,
My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.โ ~ Ted Hughes
#BookWormSat
๐ผ๏ธ Oak Trees, Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer, 1828.
๐๐ค๐"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores."
๐The Winter's Tale
#ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday
โThere is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.โ
-Samuel Johnson
๐จLuis Wain
#art #bookwormsat #bookchatweekly #literature #illustration #vintage #gifts
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I didnโt take Prime Minister Carney for a Cat ๐ guy but all respect ๐ซก ๐
Even his cat looks more educated than Poilievre. ๐๐
โค๏ธ๐๐จ๐ฆTEAM CANADA FOREVER๐จ๐ฆ๐โค๏ธ
โค๏ธ๐๐จ๐ฆVIVE LE CANADA ๐จ๐ฆ๐โค๏ธ
ฮฮณฮฝฮฎ ฮบฮนฯฯฮฑฯฮนฮฌ...
ฮฯฮฏฯฮตฮดฮฟ ฮบฮฟฮนฮฝฯฮฝฮนฮบฯฯฮทฯฮฑฯ level 235
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