From: Charlie Ruland (ruland@luckymail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2011 - 15:56:38 CST
AFAIK the letter þorn, like the present-day English digraph th,
represented TWO most important consonants: the voiceless/fortis
apico-dental slit fricative, as in ‘thin’ /θɪn/, and the voiced/lenis
one of ‘then’ /ðɛn/.
Charlie
* David Starner [2011-02-07 21:42]:
> I believe it was the importation of fonts from the continent, where
> they ignored the need for a character for that most important
> consonant.
-- ERROR COMMVNIS FACIT IVS
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