• SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    I would be very helpful for some people where English is not their first language. In French the h in th is silent. The th sound does not exist in the language. All h’s are silent.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      4 days ago

      Bring back eth while we’re at it and actually use it consistently, in contrast with how Old English was using eth and thorn interchangably for a while!

      Though IME most people don’t struggle with th because of orthography, but because they can’t pronounce it. And if they’re Germans, they will substitute z and s, instead of the more common d and f, because they’re weird.