• sramder@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Um… bad English is my second language, but I’m still going to need some help here.

    That’s a Diehard reference… I just don’t know what “pem” is. It’s coming out with an oddly accented ’p’ on my end. Maybe an accented ’b’?

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      2 months ago

      Ah, welcome! The character (þ) you see there is the thorn. It makes a ‘th’ sound, so ‘þem’ would be commonly read as ‘them’.

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          2 months ago

          I’d say old (maybe middle) English? It comes to us from the raids and interaction with the Norse around the turn of the last millenium, as best I understand (very little).