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- So what is Þ and why are we bringing it back? : r BringBackThorn - Reddit
Bring Back Þ is a subreddit for þe movement to reintroduce þe letter Þ, pronounced "thorn," an Old English letter representing þe th sound þat fell out of use wiþ þe advent of þe printing press Printing press tilesets imported from Europe didn't have Þ as þeir languages lacked þis letter and several oþer old English glyphs
- When was the use of Þ diminished by the digraph th?
With the advent of printing "th" definitely replaced the letter "Þ" In Germanic languages it represents PIE *-t- and was common at the start of words or after stressed vowels To represent it, Old English and Old Norse used the characters ð "eth" (a modified form of -d-) and þ "thorn," which originally was a rune
- When and why did English orthography stop using Þ (thorn) and . . . - Reddit
As far as thorn goes, early English printing presses used imported type that didn't include thorn Printers would either use "th" or use a y as a thorn, which wasn't too much of a stretch (a handwritten thorn looked like a y)
- orthography - Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth . . .
<þ> and <ð> “must have been used by the last quarter of the seventh century”; Differences in usage: at first, <ð> was the most frequent choice (up to about the time of Alfred); later, <þ> was more and more used, mainly restricted to initial position (with some occasional instances in medial position and rare in final position)
- Bring Back Þ - Reddit
Bring Back Þ is a subreddit for þe movement to reintroduce þe letter Þ, pronounced "thorn," an Old English letter representing þe th sound þat fell out of use wiþ þe advent of þe printing press Printing press tilesets imported from Europe didn't have Þ as þeir languages lacked þis letter and several oþer old English glyphs
- Why Bringing Back ð with þ is a Fundamentally Bad Idea
Bring Back Þ is a subreddit for þe movement to reintroduce þe letter Þ, pronounced "thorn," an Old English letter representing þe th sound þat fell out of use wiþ þe advent of þe printing press Printing press tilesets imported from Europe didn't have Þ as þeir languages lacked þis letter and several oþer old English glyphs
- What is up with people replacing th with þ recently?
Bring Back Þ is a subreddit for þe movement to reintroduce þe letter Þ, pronounced "thorn," an Old English letter representing þe th sound þat fell out of use wiþ þe advent of þe printing press Printing press tilesets imported from Europe didn't have Þ as þeir languages lacked þis letter and several oþer old English glyphs
- Very trivial question, why are letters such as Þ and Æ . . . - Reddit
Æ, Ð and Þ are found in Old English (Anglo-Saxon), which is the source of the Icelandic alphabet Modern OE dictionaries and vocabularies treat Æ either as alphabetically equivalent to AE or as a separate letter following A, while Þ is treated as a separate letter following T Ð is treated as equivalent to Þ
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