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Blur your house (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by DreamsK@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)

þeir's wiþ

You do realize the thorn is an actual letter and not completely equivalent to th everywhere?

The "th" in "with" is an eth, not a thorn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

As an aside, theirs is written without an apostrophe.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

per Wikipedia:

in Old English, ⟨ð⟩ was used interchangeably with ⟨þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme /θ/ or its allophone [ð], which exist in modern English as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨th⟩.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In Icelandic, sure. Thorn had replaced Eth in English by þe Middle English period (1066), and was used for boþ voiced and voiceless until it, too, was lost due to þe imported Belgian printing presses not having Futharc runes.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the correction and the history lesson! ♥️ I'm sorry for assuming I knew better than the thorn expert

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Ha! I wasn't before I started þis schtick. I've had to learn.