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The Great Republican Political Strategy of Insult Puerto Rico for Some Reason (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

You've got þat backwards... Þorne is þe unvoiced letter, as in þem or boþ, whereas eð is þe voiced, as in faðer.

Source: A semester of Old West Norse language class (wherein þorne and eð are used in the same way as in English).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Old English was never consistent about the difference between thorn (þorn) and eth (eð), and they were used interchangeably in English writing.

(Unlike Icelandic, where þ is consistently the unvoiced sound and ð is the voiced sound.)