Occasional proposals have been made by individuals for an abbreviation. yͤ and yͭ are developed from þͤ and þͭ and appear in Early Modern manuscripts and in print (see Ye form).þͤ and þͭ ( þ with a superscript e or t) appear in Middle English manuscripts for "þe" and "þat" respectively.It is the letter þ with a bold horizontal stroke through the ascender, and it represents the word þæt, meaning "the" or "that" (neuter nom. Barred thorn: the earliest abbreviation, it is used in manuscripts in the Old English language.Since "the" is one of the most frequently used words in English, at various times short abbreviations for it have been found: Sudan (but the Republic of the Sudan) and South Sudan (but the Republic of South Sudan) are written nowadays without the article. Ukraine is occasionally referred to as the Ukraine, a usage that was common during the 20th Century, possibly originating with Ukrainian immigrant scholars not fluent in English referring to the country as so. This usage is in decline, The Gambia remains recommended whereas use of the Argentine for Argentina is considered old-fashioned. derivations from mountain ranges, rivers, deserts, etc., are sometimes used with an article, even for singular, ( the Lebanon, the Sudan, the Yukon, the Congo).Singular derivations from "island" or "land" that hold administrative rights – Greenland, England, Christmas Island and Norfolk Island – do not take a "the" definite article.
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In Middle English, these had all merged into þe, the ancestor of the Modern English word the.
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Old English had a definite article se (in the masculine gender), sēo (feminine), and þæt (neuter). The and that are common developments from the same Old English system.
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The, as in phrases like "the more the better", has a distinct origin and etymology and by chance has evolved to be identical to the definite article. Definite article principles in English are described under " Use of articles".