Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Charlie Megire and the Bet She'an Vally Hillbillies - "The End of Teenage"
Great surf songs!
Hava Nargila
and of course "The Death Dance of the Busty Hot Lifeguard Instructor Babe"
Hava Nargila
and of course "The Death Dance of the Busty Hot Lifeguard Instructor Babe"
Night Beats - "Bad Love"
Heard "Bad Love" on BBC6, now listening to their 2016 album "Who Sold My Generation". Old swamp sound.
Monday, 16 January 2017
Forgotten letters of the English alphabet
Eth (ð)
The y in ye actually comes from the letter eth, which slowly merged with y over time. In its purest form, eth was pronounced like the th sound in words like this, that or the. Linguistically, ye is meant to sound the same as the but the incorrect spelling and rampant mispronunciation live on.
https://omgfacts.com/we-used-to-have-6-more-letters-in-our-alphabet-a7e1a165853d#.a0pwtcyq5
The y in ye actually comes from the letter eth, which slowly merged with y over time. In its purest form, eth was pronounced like the th sound in words like this, that or the. Linguistically, ye is meant to sound the same as the but the incorrect spelling and rampant mispronunciation live on.
https://omgfacts.com/we-used-to-have-6-more-letters-in-our-alphabet-a7e1a165853d#.a0pwtcyq5
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