Pyrates! The true spelling! (in Off-topic)

Very well. If you insist that this particular spelling be used then I want to see you start by using that elongated 's' in your typing. You also have use the spelling for words like "allow'd" and "perswasion" which is used in the above document. :P

Would that I knew how to type an elongated 's' most people wouldn't have the slightest clue as to what I was saying-- that wouldn't stop me from doing it though!

Just use and "f". It's close enough. Though you could find yourself in a bind if you try to type something like "suffering succotash". :D

ſ is the HTML code for a ſ (medial or long s).

Oh great... Thanks for unchaining the beast, Bart. :P

Hmm.. This makes Pirates Pthrates! ;)

Gahh! It cust off the start of my post??? :( It was about y replacing th. More info.

Thorn (letter)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The letter Þ (minuscule: þ), which is also known as thorn or þorn is a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with th. The letter originated from the rune ᚦ, called "thorn" in Anglo-Saxon and thurs (giant) in Scandinavia.

It has the sound of either a voiceless interdental fricative, like 'th' as in the English word "thick", or a voiced dental fricative, like 'th' as in the English word "the". In Icelandic the usage however is restricted to the former; the voiced form is represented with the letter Ð (ð) (eth).

Usage in English
The letter was used in writing Middle English before the invention of the printing press. William Caxton, the first printer in England, brought with him type made in Continental Europe, which lacked thorn, yogh, and eth. He substituted the letter Y in place of thorn. This was not an arbitrary choice on his part: in some manuscripts of the earlier 1400s, such as The Boke of Margery Kempe, the letters Y and thorn were identical. In fact Y in place of thorn is still seen on gravestones and in the stock prefix "Ye olde...". The latter is often used for quaint store signs, such as "Ye Olde Candy Shoppe" and in the name of theme pubs to indicate things of medieval extraction or things which are English, often to convey a Deep England feel. The construction Ye Olde English Pubbe is the usual example, a standard bar name akin to The Red Lion.

The definite article spelled with Y for thorn is often jocularly or mistakenly pronounced "yee" or mistaken for the archaic nominative case of you, written ye. It is used infrequently in some modern English word games to replace the "th" with a single letter.

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We are pirateſ !

Even Daniel Defoe spelled it p-y-r-a-t-e, and all his seafaring novels were back by the knowledge he gained as a seaman himself. I won't relent!

Bah! A pirate cares not fer how werds be spelled. If'n I wants to, I'll spell it "Pierat", "Peyerate", or even "Pyrit". Take yer fancypants book lernin somewh're else. ;),

Wow, pyrates isn't the only thing we misspell! Just at a glance, I have found these words we all wrongly spell!


Pyrates --- yargh, so misunderstood
Madagafcar --- was it overthrown and replaced with Magagascar?
Honourable --- don't those silly Brits and/or canadians still spell it that way?
fome
fince
Ifland
moft
Deftructive
themfelves
thirther
fince
increafed
manifeft
Obfruction
moft
Englifh
Perfwafion --- it's near the end

That's all for now. I am curious, this isn't a letter from an Englishman, who is it from? Did S's only come into style later? Or fhould I fay only come into fyle later?

Excuse me... that was supposed to be 'backed'...

Perhaps you should read the rest of the post, Vaynard. That isn't an 'f'.

The concept of spelling particular words in a particular and uniform way was bought in fairly frequently. I'd guess it was something that was bought into effect in the last 100 years or so. Hence I would guess before that time any spelling would be alright so long as the person reading it got the basic gist as to what the you are trying to say..=)

I'd like to buy an 'r', please.

Here you go Bast:


That'll be 5k cb2 please. :P