[PW] Ye equals The?

[Corinne Florin]

I think the contestant was ruled incorrect because she had written "Ye Old Curiosity Shoppe", and from what I understand, titles as answers in Jeopardy! must be exact.
 
--Corinne
> From: jtg.germainsjy at localdial.com> To: list at project-wombat.org> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:16:52 +0100> Subject: Re: [PW] Ye equals The?> > As Karen says, and also because (I stand to be corrected!) the answer given> was in itself incorrect: "The Old Curiosity Shop"* is Dickens' ~descriptive~> term and not the name of the shop: were it so signed above the door in> script 'twould be one thing, but 'taint so the only correct answer should be> the name of the book itself. Dickens had a perfect ear for dialect and to> commit such a fow-pars in the ninetinct century as....> > * An old shop selling such things> > John Germain> > Jersey> British Channel Islands> > -----Original Message-----> From: project-wombat-open-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org> [mailto:project-wombat-open-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of> Karen Lofstrom> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:00 PM> To: list at project-wombat.org> Subject: Re: [PW] Ye equals The?> > On 10/2/07, Jeanne Schramm <jeanne.schramm at gmail.com> wrote:> > > Recently on an episode of Jeopardy! a contestant lost in the final round> for> > giving the answer "Ye Old Curiosity Shop" (instead of "The Old Curiosity> > Shop"). Before I send a letter of protest (!!) to Alex Trebek, does> anyone> > know of a reason why "Ye" should not be considered an alternate spelling> of> > "The"?> > Because the Y is just an inexact rendering of the letter "thorn",> representing "th", which looks a bit like a Y. "Ye" is just scribal> shorthand for "the".> > -- > Karen Lofstrom> _______________________________________________> Project Wombat> list at project-wombat.org> http://www.project-wombat.org/> > > _______________________________________________> Project Wombat> list at project-wombat.org> http://www.project-wombat.org
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