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From: Tony Walton - Sun Enterprise Services UK <>
Subject: Re: Odd word--Thane
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:51:52 +0100 (BST)

>
> Great!
>
> I went to a Saxon website and they spelled Thane using some of the ancient
> charactes.
>
> The T was an odd shaped letter sort of like a d with the top cut off and sort
> of on its side.


The two letters

Eth (or Etha)Ð uppercase or ð lowercase
and
ThornÞ uppercase or þ lowercase

were used in Saxon and Old English to denote an unvoiced "th" (as in "thing")
and a voiced "th" (as in "the"). Þey're still in use in modern Icelandic, as
far as I know.

If your mailer can't handle the characters I've used above for eth and thorn,
try http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/doc-charset.html

--
Tony

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