My great grandma was alive when scientists discovered the 26th letter of the alphabet. It took years for people to accept it.
My great grandma was alive when scientists discovered the 26th letter of the alphabet. It took years for people to accept it.
Sorry, I forgot to put the last paragraph as a quote.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth#Old_English
~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvbNppHZkg~~
Dang, the creator put a paywall on it.
It’s the same with the letter f, from what I remember it was pronounced as an f or a v, depending on what letters are before and after it, similar to lenition in Irish, or s being pronounced as both s and z in Romance languages depending on what’s around it.
Here we go
https://oldenglish.info/advpronunciationguide.html
Specifically þ and ð:
https://oldenglish.info/oestart.html