> As William Bradford, the first governor of the Plymouth colony, wrote in a letter in 1623, “If ye land afford you bread, and ye sea yeeld you fish, rest you a

> As William Bradford, the first governor of the Plymouth colony, wrote in a letter in 1623, “If ye land afford you bread, and ye sea yeeld you fish, rest you a while contented, God will one day afford you better fare.” I am pretty sure that what he wrote was ‘If þe land afford you bread, and þe sea yeeld you fish, rest you a while contented, God will one day afford you better fare.’ The letter which is sometimes confused for ‘y’ is actually ‘þ’ (thorn), which in current English orthography is written ‘th.’ Me, I þink þat we should go back to using þ.