• elliot_crane@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I’m probably doing exactly what they want here (e.g. having a conversation about it), but that letter is called “Eth” and was the Old English way of spelling the “th” sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

    A number of linguistic buffs want to bring it back to the modern English alphabet.

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      7 days ago

      I don’t think ð was pronounced exactly the same way as thSeems like I was thinking of other languages where they were/are pronounced differently.