• teft@piefed.social
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    13 days ago

    Thorn would be correct in this case. Eth wasn’t preferred over thorn. In modern english you could in theory split them via voiced and unvoiced but historically they were interchangeable.

    The letter thorn that you use is why we have “Ye olde tavern”. Y was used as a substitute for thorn since olde english typesetters didn’t have thorn in the sets they got from Belgium.