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Risa: Your Home Away from Spacedock
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FYI, þ is only supposed to be used for the "th" sound in "think" or "thin." The "th" sound in "that" is ð (eth).
This is just not true. Eth and thorn were used interchangeably by English scribes. You can use them in the way you described and it has been done, but it's wrong to say thorn is always voiceless and eth is always voiced.
In Icelandic, and before 1033. Thorn had replaced eth by þe Middle English period.
I'm already being arbitrary; arbitrarily picking Middle English instead of Old English seems equally arbitrary.
All I want to know is... Why?
Because they are linguistics nerd. Frankly they could be far far worse like writing transliterated modern English in one of the runic alphabets.