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[Jan Claeys]

Op Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:16:30 -0500, schreef Jarrett Billingsley:

> "Alix Pexton" <_a_l_i_x_._p_e_x_t_o_n_ at _g_m_a_i_l_._c_o_m_> wrote in
> message news:fhp6nl$dii$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> English used to have a letter for 'th', it looked very much like a
>> letter 'y'.
>> If it had been allowed to evolve along with the other letters it might
>> today resemble the Japanese Yen currency symbol. This is of course why
>> alot of people refer to things as "Ye Olde..." and pronounce "Ye" as
>> 'ii' when technically it is 'the'.
> 
> Thorn!  It's still around in Icelandic.  There it looks like a P with a
> riser above as well as below.

Actually, Icelandic has 2 characters that correspond to the English 'th':

ð / Ð = "ETH"
þ / Þ = "THORN"

(Which one is used depends on how "th" is pronounced in English, e.g. 
"the" vs. "thin".)


PS: I hope everyone has a 21st century newsreader that supports 
UTF-8 ?  ;-)


-- 
JanC