• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    28 days ago

    It’s ð letter which represents ð soft ‘th’ sound ð way þ represents ð hard version. Like B and P but if we had just accepted representing boþ wið an fh for some reason.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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      28 days ago

      You’ve got þat backwards… Þorne is þe unvoiced letter, as in þem or boþ, whereas eð is þe voiced, as in faðer.

      Source: A semester of Old West Norse language class (wherein þorne and eð are used in the same way as in English).

      • @[email protected]
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        328 days ago

        Old English was never consistent about the difference between thorn (þorn) and eth (eð), and they were used interchangeably in English writing.

        (Unlike Icelandic, where þ is consistently the unvoiced sound and ð is the voiced sound.)