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Strictly Necessary Cookies Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. Enable or Disable Cookies. But the practice of naming shops this way didn't start until the late 19th century and it was done to make things sound, well, old. I actually came across a claim in David Wolman's otherwise excellent book Righting the Mother Tongue , that the word "olde" spelled O-L-D-E didn't exist at all until the 19th century.
Spellings of "old" in premodern English, he explains, include "alde," "auld," "awld," and "ole. The entry for "olde" in the Oxford English Dictionary would seem to confirm this, defining the word thus:. Used as an archaism, originally commercially, later also freq.
Sometimes with other words spelt archaistically, as Olde English e. However, that's just the modern usage of "olde. There are examples in the 15th and 16th centuries of people using "olde" as a noun to refer to old people e. Leena November 13, am. Larry February 20, am. Thaeri August 1, pm.
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