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They know exactly what they are doing (i.imgur.com)

submitted 10 months ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

What's with the funky D?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

They're using ~~Thorn~~ Edd, the single character that represented the Th sound in old English (still used in Icelandic).

It's a harmless little quirk in their own writing, although editing the title of a book to include it seems pretty silly.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Except it's not thorn. Thorn is Þ.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You are correct. In my defence:

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

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Oh ha. Looks like you looked it up as I was looking it up.

Still, whatever it is, doesn't really answer the original question which was about why the user above was doing it.

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