Typo in performance-tips.html

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:33:43AM -0800, Hashem Masoud wrote:

I believe this is a typo in the file
performance-tips.html (perform.sgml):

This plan proposes to extract the 50 interesting rows
of tenk1 using ye same olde index scan, stash them
into an in-memory hash table,

What's the typo? "Ye same olde"? That appears to be an attempt
at humor using Middle English. Here's a brief article about how
the "y" in "ye" is a misspelling of the "thorn" (�) character:

http://www.bartleby.com/68/15/6615.html

The Icelandic language still uses the thorn character, if I'm not
mistaken.

--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:15:10PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:

Here's a brief article about how the "y" in "ye" is a misspelling
of the "thorn" (�) character:

http://www.bartleby.com/68/15/6615.html

Here's another article mentioning that "y" was used in place of
thorn on printing presses that didn't have the latter character:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/10/Y0011000.html

--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/