"thorn and eth, both of which represent MnE th as in 'cloth' and in 'clothe'"
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
"voiceless and voiced th were merely varians (allophones) in OE and not sounds of different significance (phonemes)"
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
so i guess voiced would be in a word like "pathas", but voiceless in "paeth"
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
i am not on mobile so i can't actually use thorn or eth atm lol
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
apparently it's why we have path/paths and loaf/loaves
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
but since these were allophones, it was based on dialect. and apparently, many other letters in OE are like this. i.e. v/f
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so even though the other letters weren't interchangeable (I think??) the sounds were.
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so basically the point is that OE dngaf about voiced/voiceless
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