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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by tlholaday on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:38AM (#16158446)
> ... digraphs ...

I wonder who to credit for encouraging the English to use th instead of thorn. It turned out ok.

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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by gerdesj on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:29AM (#16158820)
True but we now have pretty much the world plus dog thinking that "Ye olde shoppe" sounds very different to "The old shop".

Note that I did not put in a real thorn and instead substituted a Y. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

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