• The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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      2 months ago

      You are correct. In my defence:

      In Old English, ⟨ð⟩ (called ðæt) was used interchangeably with ⟨þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme /θ/ or its allophone /ð/, which exist in modern English phonology as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨th⟩.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Oh ha. Looks like you looked it up as I was looking it up.

        Still, whatever it is, doesn’t really answer the original question which was about why the user above was doing it.