Since nobody else has said it yet, I feel compelled to point out that this is the character we are familiar with from the expression “ye olde curiosity shoppe” and the like. That’s right, it is and always was properly pronounced “the,” as @retepslluerb alluded to. I remember it being a huge a-ha! moment learning this in my history of English lit class. “Could it be that Woody Woodpecker was lying to me?!”
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