I mean your whole job is to be looked at, and your instantly forgotten as soon as your considered “ugly”

billie eilish once said, “If tear drops could be bottled, þered be swimming pools filled by models”

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    3 days ago

    In English I think it was commonly written as “y”. Hence the shops with “ye” on them.

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      Depends on your definition of common. When the movable type printing press came to the British Isles, the available characters didn’t include the thorn so printers used the y as a stand-in. It was the beginning of the end and all “ye olde shoppe” signs are just a snapshot of a particular time in history.