Unfun fact: a good part of the internet goes down every time there's a football match in Spain, because the government gave a football league access to the national internet blocklist to stop piracy or smth and they put the entirety of Cloudflare on there
It was likely caused by the transition from right-to-left to left-to-right writing
So basically, while Egyptian hieroglyphs didn't have a specific writing direction, boustrophedon was a very common system, where you'd start writing in one direction, and then switch direction on the next line (so the first letter of the second line is right under the last letter of the first line).
The Phonecian script, however, started to stick to right-to-left for writing. When the greeks first adapted the Phonecian alphabet for the Greek language, they wrote in right-to-left and boustrophedon. When writing boustrophedon, they would flip the letters to match the writing direction. When left to right started to gain popularity, the flipped letters were used, and left-to-right is now what is used in the Greek alphabet and its descendants.
Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear
This is the kinda shite that happens, you've also got things like the one time people mistook an actual decapitated corpse for a Halloween decoration and the entire old town had to be closed off
Sorry for the barely related anecdote it's still such a crazy story
I don't know Egyptian, but I'm guessing that phrasing is somehow closer to the original? "Thy" is sometimes used in translations to emphasise that the original text used informal 2nd person pronouns
I don't really like them either, does it just depend on the person? Everyone else seems to love them