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Reintroduce The letters "Thorn" and "Eth" back into the english Alphabet

Submitted on Friday 19th April 2019

Rejected on Friday 17th May 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Reintroduce The letters "Thorn" and "Eth" back into the english Alphabet

Petition Details

Have you ever wondered why some signs have ye olde?
because there used to be a letter called thorn (Þþ) this would make the th sound in the, but the letter eth (Ðð) made the th sound in "That" and "this" the Th sounds are very common in english and should have their own letter.

Additional Information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS7W917ty3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUrDUxh5xS0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_orthography (Icelandic still uses eth and thorn)


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