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(I'm sorry but I'm dying to know, whats up with 'ð' ?)
I think it's a thorne, which used to stand for "th."
When printing was new they used to substitute Ys for them, hence Ye Old Shoppe.
It's ð letter which represents ð soft 'th' sound ð way þ represents ð hard version. Like B and P but if we had just accepted representing boþ wið an fh for some reason.
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).
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.)
...I get what you're saying but..."þem"? You pronounce ðat unvoiced?
Þink þis depends on dialect, because boþ sound correct to me.
Edit: added more þorns
Fair enough
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