Escaped Thoughts

Pronounced "The Olde Language Quize"

Spelled "Thorn-E".

I think though that "quiz" comes much later; the Anglo-Saxons used "cw" or "cu" for "qu"

Well, you want us to say "ye" and be wrong? Next guess is eower, genitive of ye(or ge). I would imagine the pronunciation to be something like yowwer? "Yowsa!" would be more fun, tho.

Sorry, forgot to announce the mysterious Allan's answer as correct before going to Europe. +100 for obscure knowledge, but -10 for trying to show me up.

I don't understand Allan's answer?? Thorn-e? And "quiz comes much later" than what? I must be out of my depth here.

The answer is "Ye", spelled "Thorn-E" (as opposed to "Y-E"), and pronounced "The".

The "comes much later" is pointing out that use of "quiz" would be anachronistic at the time when thorn was still in use (although for the wrong reasons; quiz appears to have come into existence in the 18th or 19th century, so it didn't exist previously with another spelling). I contend that it's no more anachronistic than most "shoppes" that have faux-archaic signs (and furthermore that it's my quiz and I can do as I like).

There! I've learned something from Ye Olde Language Quize. Thanks.