Date:  Fri, 3 Dec 1993 16:43:37 +0100

From:  Hans Vappula <guchw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GD.CHALMERS.SE>

Subject: Re: th/dh



If the Brits had had enough common sense/guts/respect for

traditions/whatever to have kept the letters eth and thorn, it might have

been easier to conclude how words which are now spelt with th should be

pronounced.



Had eth/thorn been kept, the following spellings could/would have been used.

think = <thorn> <i> <n> <k>

this = <eth> <i> <s>

three = <thorn> <r> <e> <e>

with = <w> <i> <eth>

And so on.

Of course, the Americans would have scrapped these spellings as being a

British way of complicating things, and simplified them, just like in these

examples: colour-color, transferring-transfering, night-nite,

catalogue-catalog, cheque-check, etc. etc. ad infinitum :-)



//Hans Vappula, Gothenburg Universities' Computing Centre, G|teborg, Sweden



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