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anomalies which persist to this day in the reprinting of archaic texts and the spelling of regional words. The widely misunderstood 'ye' occurs through a habit of printer's usage that originates in Caxton's time, when printers would substitute the <y> (often accompanied by a superscript <e>) in place of the thorn <þ> or the eth <ð>, both of which were used to denote both the voiced and non-voiced sounds, /ð/ and /θ/ (Anderson, D. (1969) The Art of
Written Forms. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, p 169)
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Holland and Belgium, and did not provide for the continuing use of elements of the Old English alphabet such as thorn <þ>, eth <ð>, and yogh <ʒ>. The substitution of visually similar typographic forms has led to some
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and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers.
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allowing the university to use "THE" on casual and athletic clothing. The university, often referred to as "The Ohio State
University", had used "THE" on clothing since 2005, but took steps to register the trademark in August 2019 after the
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countries for the honorific title "The Right
Honourable", as in e.g. "The Earl Mountbatten of Burma", short for "The Right Honourable Earl Mountbatten of Burma", or "The Prince Charles".
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fashion retailer could use "THE" on its merchandise, which was different from what the university would sell. Still, the university took almost an additional year to convince the
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English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in
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company attempted to do the same. In August 2021 Ohio State and Marc Jacobs agreed the
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periods, the letter thorn (þ) in its common script, or
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Curiositie Shoppe'. One major reason for this was that
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that the use of "the" was "more than ... ornamental".
1258:"... by the grace that god put ..." (Extract from the
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The
Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System
1686:"English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited"
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1909:"List of Countries, Territories and Currencies"
1757:(6th ed.). Boston: Wadsworth. p. 110.
1529:above it. During the latter Middle English and
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1431:with a bold horizontal stroke through the
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609:expert", not just "an" expert in a field.
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1895:"Using 'the' with the Names of Countries"
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1362:in places such as Romans 15:29 or in the
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486:In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as
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388:African-American Vernacular English
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2132:"Missed Opportunity for Ligatures"
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553:(homophone of the archaic pronoun
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1937:"UNGEGN World Geographical Names"
1843:Palmer, Brian (27 October 2009).
1798:, March 2016. Web. 11 March 2016.
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1990:Steinmetz, Katy (2014-03-05).
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2146:Titles and Forms of Address
2052:Hill, Will (30 June 2020).
2017:Mellen, Ruby (2019-10-01).
1822:Online Etymology Dictionary
1626:for feminine singular, and
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1240:the Republic of South Sudan
1013:(England), take an article.
914:The Village at Castle Pines
804:the University of Cambridge
16:Definite article in English
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1794:"the, adv.1." OED Online.
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1230:the Republic of the Sudan
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2144:'The Prefix "The"'. In
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1877:"FAO Country Profiles"
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1755:A Course in Phonetics
1703:French Grammar Drills
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800:Cambridge University
791:the Isle of Portland
23:The (disambiguation)
21:For other uses, see
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1505:In Middle English,
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1074:the State of Israel
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1733:"the – definition"
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973:the City of London
932:Wells-next-the-Sea
769:the County of York
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473:which combined in
1951:How English Works
1714:978-0-07-147513-6
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