Swashbuckler 1700 Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 (edited) Which was the most common writing way of pirate in gaop pyrate or pirate? Edited April 21, 2012 by Swashbuckler 1700 "I have not yet Begun To Fight!"John Paul Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Pyrate, pirate, pirat and pyrat were all common Foxe"With this Fore-Staff he fansies he does Wonders, when, God knows, it amounts to no more but only to solve that simple Question, Where are we? Which every chi'd in London can tell you." - Ned Ward The Wooden World Dissected, 1707ETFox.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swashbuckler 1700 Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 Thanks, What about murder or murther? I have seen many "murthers" done by pirates. "I have not yet Begun To Fight!"John Paul Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 You have to remember that there was no standardized spelling in the eighteenth century, so most words could be spelled a number of different ways. Murder and murther were both used. Abbreviations were also very common so, for example, 'which' becomes 'wch'. Also, 'y' was often substituted for 'th', so 'ye' should actually be pronounced 'the', and 'yt' means 'that' Foxe"With this Fore-Staff he fansies he does Wonders, when, God knows, it amounts to no more but only to solve that simple Question, Where are we? Which every chi'd in London can tell you." - Ned Ward The Wooden World Dissected, 1707ETFox.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grymm Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 The y being a replacement for thorn, Þ the Anglo Saxon/Scandi character for th. A lead shortage in the end of the 16thC means that printers stop having the thorn cast and use a y instead coz everyone knows 'things*' are the never ye, a habit that carries right through to the early 19thC then we forget =o/ As Foxe says in writing the y is used as a contraction for th so yn = then ym = them often with the last letter in, to use modern formtting speek, superscript with a dot under it * eg a pub called Ye Olde Belle is pronounced The Old Bell, the extra e is a form of 'glottal stop' that turns up, whilst people still are writing phonetically, it's a softly voiced singy songy extra eh that rocks up in some UK dialect/accents. Lambourne! Lambourne! Stop that man pissin' on the hedge, it's imported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Instructions for Writing in GAoP style Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?" John: "I don't know." Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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