• jnod4
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    3 days ago

    You’re using thorn for totally different sounds? Shouldn’t the th in “with”/ “both” be a different letter than the TH in “the”?

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      3 days ago

      Nah, not really, þ was used for both sounds throughout the history. Reviving this thing would make sense with a letter eth (ð), assigning one sound for each, as in “wið/boþ”, which is easier to read for language learners. But the person above clearly just wants to be fancy.

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        3 days ago

        I can get behind that, having same letter for different letters cab be touð