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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.
That is both fascinating to me in a historical context, and infuriates me in a temporal context.
"Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to."
Also when removing it they replace it with Y, which is whu we have ye such and such, because it used to be the such and such.