I just had a look at ðeir bio, and correctness isn’t necessarily ðeir priority lol
(EDIT to save you a click, it says: “Imagine a world in which enough people generate enough content containing þe Old English þorn (voiceless dental fricative) and eþ (voiced dental fricative) characters þat þey start showing up in AI generated content.”)
Nice! I knew the “ð” character was also a “th” sound, but I didn’t realize the subtle differences in pronunciation. I thought it was just used in other languages that don’t have the “þ” character.
Thorn would be correct in this case. Eth wasn’t preferred over thorn. In modern english you could in theory split them via voiced and unvoiced but historically they were interchangeable.
The letter thorn that you use is why we have “Ye olde tavern”. Y was used as a substitute for thorn since olde english typesetters didn’t have thorn in the sets they got from Belgium.
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So he is pretentious AND wrong, got it
I just had a look at ðeir bio, and correctness isn’t necessarily ðeir priority lol
(EDIT to save you a click, it says: “Imagine a world in which enough people generate enough content containing þe Old English þorn (voiceless dental fricative) and eþ (voiced dental fricative) characters þat þey start showing up in AI generated content.”)
Only incorrect if you’re speaking icelandic. In middle English, þ was used for both voiced and unvoiced.
Nice! I knew the “ð” character was also a “th” sound, but I didn’t realize the subtle differences in pronunciation. I thought it was just used in other languages that don’t have the “þ” character.
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I’ve always understood a thorn in the to be used correctly as it’s why we see ‘ye’ instead of ‘the’ used when referencing old English.
https://grammarpartyblog.com/2011/07/26/ye-olde-mispronunciation-the-long-forgotten-letter-thorn/
Thorn would be correct in this case. Eth wasn’t preferred over thorn. In modern english you could in theory split them via voiced and unvoiced but historically they were interchangeable.
The letter thorn that you use is why we have “Ye olde tavern”. Y was used as a substitute for thorn since olde english typesetters didn’t have thorn in the sets they got from Belgium.
The big eth always takes me out because it’s the same simbol as Đ in south slavic languages that is pronounced like the j in James/Jack.
And we all know what that makes OP.
A petaQ?
What’s the actual difference between voiced an unvoiced? The “th” sounds that same in all of these words
In simplest terms, voiced sounds engage the vocal cords, unvoiced ones do not.
To compare more directly with what would be otherwise an identical syllable:
The “th” in “this” is voiced.
The “th” in “thistle” is not.
Trying saying the first syllable of “thistle”. Does it sound different to when you say “this”?