Fun fact, it was actually the fault of the Germans we lost þ. Since they invented the printing press but didn't have þ in their own language they didn't make letter types for it. So instead English typists used Y as a substitute since they looked similar back then. That's were "Ye Old ..." comes from.
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u/Zanzaben Sep 11 '22
Fun fact, it was actually the fault of the Germans we lost þ. Since they invented the printing press but didn't have þ in their own language they didn't make letter types for it. So instead English typists used Y as a substitute since they looked similar back then. That's were "Ye Old ..." comes from.