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The Y in ye was simply because there wasn't a printing block character for the 'thorn'- the single character for the th sound people used when writing with a pen. So they used a Y and it caught on with sign painters etc. Whacky. Sent from my 9001X using EN World mobile app

Likewise, I say die when I can but find myself having to say dice for clarity because others don't know what I mean. HOWEVER, the Oxford English Dictionary did change their 'ruling' on this one a few years ago. Apparently, it ok now to say One Dice. Sent from my 9001X using EN World mobile app

Why has no one mentioned Edgar Rice Burroughs? There are many more direct references to Barsoom and John Carter in the original D&D booklets than allusions to Tolkien. Mind you, by the time 1e arrived they'd been expunged. But when I first started playing in 1975/6 it was John Carter I was...