Typography – Classic Lines Design https://www.classiclinesdesign.com Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:49:54 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.classiclinesdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-Classic-Lines-Design-NHS-32x32.png Typography – Classic Lines Design https://www.classiclinesdesign.com 32 32 Merry Christmas from Classic Lines Design https://www.classiclinesdesign.com/merry-christmas-classic-lines-design/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:54:35 +0000 https://www.classiclinesdesign.com/?p=5481 Classic Lines Design would like to wish all our clients, suppliers and friends: a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year. x

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Classic Lines Design would like to wish all our clients, suppliers and friends: a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year. x

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]]> Ye boy with þe thorn in his side https://www.classiclinesdesign.com/ye-boy-thorn-side/ Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:54:22 +0000 http://www.classiclinesdesign.com/?p=3881 How would you pronounce the first word in the names of these rustic establishments? Sadly, the answer is not “Yee,” but boring old “The.” In Old English, long before we put ‘t‘ & ‘h‘ together to form that breathy-lisp sound: we had a letter called a Thorn. Which at the time, would have been spelled: […]

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Sadly, the answer is not “Yee,” but boring old “The.”

In Old English, long before we put ‘t‘ & ‘h‘ together to form that breathy-lisp sound: we had a letter called a Thorn. Which at the time, would have been spelled: Þorn.

With the invention of the printing-press, Latin countries did not include the thorn on their type-setting; so replaced it with the nearest-looking character: Y.

This was then replaced with ‘th’ – except in Iceland, where it survives to this day as the 30th letter of their alphabet.

Þe Olde Designe Studio

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