Comment on People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet

• pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  In that case also add ð. If you say the words “think” and “this” out loud, they use different “th”-sounds. “These” would be “ðese”, and “think” would be “þink”.

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Now I know how to say “ðese nuts” if I ever go time traveling!

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    • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I wonder what nuts of the ðese variety taste like.

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  • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Wasn’t that a misconception and they both make either of those sounds?

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Did Old English not have both voiced and voiceless dental fricatives? Modern German has neither θ nor ð, and Old English sharing so much it wouldn’t surprise me, but O.E. obviously acquired or inherited them somewhere - was the voiced distinction introduced later? Probably not from Latin, since it didn’t have those either.

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      • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Sorry, I forgot to put the last paragraph as a quote.

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth#Old_English

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    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I don’t know, that’s a level deeper than I know about, but you could be right.

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      • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        See my post to the reply above yours :)

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