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To: Red Badger

Just bring back the thorn (TH combination) that we lost when English printers bought European presses missing the symbol. You know the signs that say “Ye olde whatever?” The “Ye” was actually “[Thorn]e”, the Y was the closest symbol to what thorn looked like.


17 posted on 07/09/2013 7:00:34 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB

Sounds like a thorny situation, 2 me........


19 posted on 07/09/2013 7:01:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: JenB
I could see a new letter for the ‘th’ dipthong. But the list for each unique sound is enormous. And there are plenty of sounds that are used in other languages and missing in English. One of those sounds is the real sound of ‘f’ in the Japanese pronounciation of Fuji (I can't pronounce it, revenge for our 'l', LOL).

So I say we have enough letters as it is, government schools have enough trouble teaching just those.

42 posted on 07/09/2013 7:39:08 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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