The word that is used in the English language for several grammatical purposes: to introduce a restrictive clause as a demonstrative pronoun as a complementizer. In the Old English language that was spelled þæt. It was also abbreviated as a letter Thorn, þ, with the ascender crossed, ꝥ . In Middle English the letter Ash, æ, was replaced with the letter a, so that that was spelled þat, or sometimes þet.

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  • The word that is used in the English language for several grammatical purposes: to introduce a restrictive clause as a demonstrative pronoun as a complementizer. In the Old English language that was spelled þæt. It was also abbreviated as a letter Thorn, þ, with the ascender crossed, ꝥ . In Middle English the letter Ash, æ, was replaced with the letter a, so that that was spelled þat, or sometimes þet. The ascender of the þ was reduced (making it similar to the Old English letter Wynn, ƿ), which necessitated writing a small t above the letter to abbreviate the word that . In later Middle English and Early Modern English the þ evolved into a y shape, so that the word was spelled yat (although the spelling with a th replacing the þ was starting to become more popular) and the abbreviation for that was a y with a small t above it . This abbreviation can still be seen in reprints of the 1611 edition of the King James Version of the Bible in places such as 2 Corinthians 13:7.
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  • The word that is used in the English language for several grammatical purposes: to introduce a restrictive clause as a demonstrative pronoun as a complementizer. In the Old English language that was spelled þæt. It was also abbreviated as a letter Thorn, þ, with the ascender crossed, ꝥ . In Middle English the letter Ash, æ, was replaced with the letter a, so that that was spelled þat, or sometimes þet.
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