something for all the olde farts to get nostalgic about :-)

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6674/hon31od4.jpg

 

sorry to disappoint but not the slightest

 

Not bad but the headlights remind me of the Cybermen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41631000/jpg/_41631814_cybermen3_416bbc.jpg

 

Look out Smee, the history police are here. Commander Cook didn't have
computers either. Should we continue this discussion at the monthly
meeting of the Royal Society?

Nev..

 

oh fore fucks sake

meh

 

I'm just gonna see how this pans out for the moment
I'm on holidays till tomorrow

 

ahem,

1. i believe the dutch found wa first before that stinking copy cat cook

2. they were using the word aulde @ olde

now back in your box

 

Now don't be too hard on them, they may get all discombobulated.

 

I'm fairly sure that it was only around the 19thC that people actually
started to get fussy about what was or was not the correct way to spell
anything. So in the 17th and 18th you had old, olde, auld, aulde, elde,
ealde and so on depending upon personal inclination and where exactly you
came from. Some of those spellings may have been a trifle earlier, but you
get the idea.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:10:02 +1000

The explosion in printed matter was the biggie, especially periodicals.
I have bound volumes of The Spectator from the early 1700s with quite
standardised spelling we'd all recognise. (And those damned long S's
which makes them amazingly hard to read...)

Noah Webster wasn't sure about the way Johnson dealt with words, he
thought that Johnsons's dictionary just cemented the problem - there had
been changes in the way many words were pronounced and the langage has
sounds that the Latin alphabet's not good with. So Webster changed some
things when he made his dictionary, leading to the different spellings
in the USA. He couldn't simplify that much though.

As far as I know, "Ye olde" is a Victorian medieval revivalist silliness.
The "Y" is how the letter called "thorn" was represented in some early
printed matter, and "olde" was definitely a way some people pronounuced
"old", modern speech cuts off sounds that used to be pronounced, we
swallow the d, I think they said it more like "old-duh". But the
twee "Ye Olde Whatsit" is Wromantic Wrubbish.

There was a lot of standardisation of grammar in the 1800s, and people
tried to formulate rules to cover the already standard spelling that
had come from a time when things were pronnounced differently, and for
words that came from other languages and then written sometimes as
they were in the original tongue and sometimes as they were pronounced
in England.

Zebee

 

You keep writing this stuff like it is relevant to something.

Nev..

 

How is a picture of a brand new bike a history lesson?

Nev..

 

Alright, who's kidnapped Scrok,

that was quite intelligible

either that, or the beer wench is slipping, more beer to Corks,
Betty..

Bill_h

 

LIEUTENANT Commander Cook!


BTH

 

Marvellous people, the Wromans...


BTH

 

Aha, I didn't know the thorn got printed as "Y". I suppose they didn't want
nasty non-latin orthography cluttering up their presses.

 

Except for Theo.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Clem's older than me.

 

Nah it just smells that way ?

 

[hearty applause]

betty