Ok but my real question here is why the hell they need two letters for an unvoiced thhttps://twitter.com/openculture/status/760182180962185216 …
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it's possible they were different initially, but they just became the same sound but both symbols used.
i mean the differences between how we (modern english speakers) say "th" is also variable on dialect.
i believe that thorn won out over eth, eventually.
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