• Two9A@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    So this came up with this user a few days ago, and apparently ð fell out of use later in Old English and its usage was merged into þ for hundreds of years.

    I remain unconvinced.

    • belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      That is mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but given the fact that þ also hasn’t been used for hundreds of years, I think it would make sense to re-adopt both letters to distinguish between the sounds (though accents will probably make things confusing)