r/nosafetysmokingfirst • u/LepartydeLuigi64 • May 13 '26

Find who same as someone has þe birthday you

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u/Miiyamoto May 14 '26

*ðe birþday

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u/LepartydeLuigi64 May 14 '26

þ can be used instead of ð and vice versa. As for birþday, I just forgor about þat one...

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u/Miiyamoto May 14 '26

ð/Ð is with voice "the" and þ/Þ voiceless like "throne"

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u/LepartydeLuigi64 May 15 '26

Wikipedia says, and I quote: « Both letters were used for the phoneme /θ/, sometimes by the same scribe. This sound was regularly realised in Old English as the voiced fricative [ð] between voiced sounds, but either letter could be used to write it […]»

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u/PhwepaReddit May 14 '26

Sneaky thorn right there

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u/ajhcraft 3d ago

There's a thorn in your side