From: [email protected] > In a message dated 29/05/2009 19:41:51 GMT Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > published in ye church but John and ye bride > ______________________________________________________________________ > __ Hi Roy, I hope you don't mind me pointing out that the word should > not be 'ye' but 'the.' þ, the now obsolete letter (known as 'thorn') > was still used in this period to represent a 'th' sound. Most often > it looks exactly like a y, and it is in this form that it is to this > day misunderstood in countless establishments with names like 'ye > olde tea shoppe'. When you see 'ye' you are looking at 'þe' and it > should be trancscribed as 'the'. Similarly with 'yat' you are > looking at 'þat' and should transcribe it as 'that', on the > understanding that þ consistently represents 'th'. > Stan I am sure that you are technically correct (you usually are) but could I point out that my post was a transcription of a transcription? I was merely quoting from the book by Michael Southwick and that is how he publishes the transcription from the marriage register. Don't you think perhaps you are being a little too literal and academic for some of our fellow listers? I am, however, pleased that so many of you seem to have enjoyed this wonderful story, as I did. -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Don't you think perhaps you are being a little too literal and academic for some of our fellow listers? I am, however, pleased that so many of you seem to have enjoyed this wonderful story, as I did.