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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
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.
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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