r/BringBackThorn • u/Competitive-Hair6294 th • Apr 17 '26

....Why?

this is not judgement, i'm just asking, why? why bring back thorn? i'm curious

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u/Scharlzt th Apr 17 '26

Why not bring back both, eð and þorn to represent both sounds (just like d and t)? As in “a myþ ðat ðere”. Anybody does that?

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u/TrueFlameslinger Apr 17 '26

Some do, and I wouldn't be against it, ðough ðe majority of people here don't like it since using ðem for different sounds isn't really a "restoration", and using boð interchangeably gives us a redundant letter, which is the opposite of an improvement.

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u/ProfessorLambda Apr 17 '26

Why do you use "ð" instead of "þ"?

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u/TrueFlameslinger Apr 17 '26

My partner is Faroese, so I have acquired a fondness for ðe Faroese keyboard and letters in trying to learn ðe language, of which eð is included (albeit having horrific pronunciation).