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My great grandma was alive when scientists discovered the 26th letter of the alphabet. It took years for people to accept it.
Submitted 4 months ago by PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com to [deleted]
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My great grandma was alive when scientists discovered the 26th letter of the alphabet. It took years for people to accept it.
1840s kids will remember
Probably only 1840s rich white kids.
Wait until you hear about other languages.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s & - ampersand aka “and per se and”. The article also mentions these:
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Damn cancel culture really did a number on the English alphabet huh
sxan@midwest.social 4 months ago
I am totally adding þese back to my keybord.
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months 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”.
Resol@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nouu I knouu uuhy it’s called “double U”.
Also, yogh looks too much like the Arabic numeral three, so it sort of makes sense why they got rid of it.
I believe Œ is still used in French (though it doesn’t count as part of the alphabet), but I just spell it as OE since it just looks so ugly. Æ looks way worse though, and Icelandic still uses it.