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I choose violence (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm autistic and out of touch. How do you pronounce this symbol? What even is it? When did this start? Hello fellow kids. Old man weather bones here bringing you some Werther's Originals.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It's "TH" like in "the".

    Old english used it because many words were from norse and vikings brought runes as an alphabet with them.

    It neither survived that time english decided that french is cool, nor that time press was invented only for latin alphabet.

    You can notice remnants of history of this letter by noticing how many english words contain "th" in them.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Lol I'm old enough I used that character rather than a P for tongue sticking out emoticon (some alt + 4? numbers on an America keyboard unsure if same on others),but learned it's intended sound years later.

    I always thought it was a cool character for th sound, but went out of style many moons ago. Thorn is the name I believe.

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