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Old 04-18-2019, 02:48 PM   #5087
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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took View Post
The letter 'eth' is voiced th in the phonetic alphabet, of course.

I thought thorn and eth could both be voiced and unvoiced in Old English, though. Or maybe they were supposed to be different sounds but this wasn't always adhered to.
Actually you're right. In A-S orthography, there was a tendency towards thorn initially, and eth medially and finally, regardless of voice. But I needed to push a clue! And of course in modern PA, eth is used for the voiced dental fricative as opposed to theta
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