The History of the Thorne

The letter Thorne in the late 1400s starts going away because of black printing. It was so popular, the French couldn't really get rid of it. Black printers just wanted to cut down on how many letters they had to like carve and stack. And then the confusing part to me is that they said, hey, let's temporarily substitute Thorne with the most similar letter,. And they picked Y, which I don't really feel it totally looks like it. That led tolike the thing you see at Renfares and Medieval Situations where people call something Yee Olde or whatever.