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ye olde

Faux-archaic form of the old
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I'm not wasting my time going to lectures given by ye olde professor Jones.

Submitted on July 07, 2010

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ye oldePseudo-archaic, pertaining to a historically inaccurate invocation of pre-modern times.
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