<![CDATA[Alfred's Serif Users' Forums — The English alphabet used to be 32 letters long]]> https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=298 Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:21:14 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: The English alphabet used to be 32 letters long]]> https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=2247#p2247 Serendipity.

I looked for the song and I found a movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzbScrr5KoQ

and the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1SWS1MFbU

William

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I am not sure, but it is possible that some of this may be as a result of when William Caxton brought the printing press to England (as in the song which has the line "I'm the man who brought the printing press to Eng...land" to the tune of "The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo" smile ) he imported type from Europe, possibly from Cologne, so the sorts for the characters were not in the font.

This is I think why inn signs like Ye Olde Red Horse exist, because, faced with no thorn character, it was improvised with a Y.

William

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