Thread: Typo in performance-tips.html
Hi all, 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, Regards, Hashem Masoud __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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" (þ) 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" (þ) 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/