On Oct 17, 11:38 pm, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Actually there were two th letters, thorn and the other escapes me, one
> looked like a horizontally flipped "6" with a horizontal bar 1/4 of the way
> down from the top which is how ye old shoppe came about.

U+00D0 Ð LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH (voiced th)
U+00F0 ð LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH

The 'ye ' in 'ye old shoppe' was always pronounced 'the', but it comes
from the letter thorn instead:

U+00DE Þ​ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN (unvoiced th)
U+00FE þ​ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN

Eric

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