Tey vs Dey - What's the difference?
tey | dey |
an Old English measure of length for rope, perhaps equivalent to the fathom.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 171:
The title given to the ruler of the (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 29:
*:the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.
As a noun tey
is an old english measure of length for rope, perhaps equivalent to the fathom.As a proper noun dey is
the tenth solar month of the persian calendar.tey
English
Noun
(en noun)- The tey or toise, the modern fathom, is employed as a measure of rope.