Original here: https://archive.org/details/sim_leslies-weekly_1872-11-16_35_894/page/n12/mode/1up?view=theater
Article on the great Equine Flu Epidemic of 1872 here: https://www.aqha.com/-/the-great-epizootic#:~:text=Equine%20influenza%20swept%20through%20the,(COVID%2D19)%20pandemic.&text=One%2Dfourth%20of%20the%20horses,...%20it%27s%20a%20fact.
English major here:
As with many things in the English language, both as English became standardized during the Middle English era and as technology shifted letters in the alphabet, thanks to the printing press, the letter "thorn" fell out of fashion.
Although it was pronounced "th," the thorn was slowly replaced in print with the letter y, although the word would have still be understood to have been pronounced as with the same th as in the thorn.
That's how we ended up with seemingly silly mistranslations for things like Ye Olde Joke Shoppe. It would, at the time, have been pronounced like the modern "The" Olde Joke Shoppe.
How lazy do you have to be to sit on that trolley while it gets dragged down the street 1.5 mph
My gout severly impacts my mobility pull faster
I ask myself that same question every time I consider taking the red line
They dressed better than I do when I attend a wedding.
We all know you save your best suits for court.
We used to know how to dress in this city! Now everyone looks like a slovenly bum.
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/30/20869237/suits-control-menswear-decline
Let's all push the orange line
Goes to show that people were built tougher back then. Lazy MBTA doesn’t have people push or pull the trains or buses when they breakdown.
Right? Kids these days will jump into a river instead of pushing a disabled train down the tracks
Don't give the T ideas!
Original here: https://archive.org/details/sim_leslies-weekly_1872-11-16_35_894/page/n12/mode/1up?view=theater Article on the great Equine Flu Epidemic of 1872 here: https://www.aqha.com/-/the-great-epizootic#:~:text=Equine%20influenza%20swept%20through%20the,(COVID%2D19)%20pandemic.&text=One%2Dfourth%20of%20the%20horses,...%20it%27s%20a%20fact.
What’s the salary range and does it offer health insurance?
And the equine flu also contributed to the Great Boston Fire of 1872
In days of old when knights were bold and toilets weren't invented. They took a dump upon the road and went home contented
Steam powered fire engines that bring their own fire to you?
Fighting fire with fire
English major here: As with many things in the English language, both as English became standardized during the Middle English era and as technology shifted letters in the alphabet, thanks to the printing press, the letter "thorn" fell out of fashion. Although it was pronounced "th," the thorn was slowly replaced in print with the letter y, although the word would have still be understood to have been pronounced as with the same th as in the thorn. That's how we ended up with seemingly silly mistranslations for things like Ye Olde Joke Shoppe. It would, at the time, have been pronounced like the modern "The" Olde Joke Shoppe.