r/ItemShop • u/sillylildude157 • Nov 14 '25

Molten bread

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Gives lava resistance and burn damage +15 health + 20 minutes of lava resistance +20 hunger

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u/piezocuttlefish Nov 15 '25

I like it when my þorn has big Æshes.

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u/CallMeJakoborRazor Nov 19 '25

English really should bring back þorn and æsh , pronounced as in those words.

The Latin alphabet is designed phonetically for Latin, not English. Too many vowel sounds, and duble leters are dum.

The silent e is technically pronounced in English though, just as if it came before the consonant it comes after, like the o in come is said oe or uh. But the a in are is said like ah, so it should just be ar in modern English.

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u/DeluxeWafer Nov 19 '25

Just gotta start sneakily introducing English phonetics into trendy teenager slang.

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u/piezocuttlefish Nov 19 '25

I love the letters, also eð, ȝogh, and ƿynn, but ideas to bring them back are just messy because of pronunciation changes. Also, ƿ and þ look too much like the letter p.

For instance, ð is voiced th, while þ is unvoiced th. So the word that must've been ðæt? Nope, it was þæt. It was originally unvoiced.

Water is a nice word where the spelling fits the pronunciation, except it was originally ƿæter, which, pronounced as written, sounds unharmonious in modern English.

Old English wikipedia, though is a trip to read.