• TwilightKiddy@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Nah, not really, þ was used for both sounds throughout the history. Reviving this thing would make sense with a letter eth (ð), assigning one sound for each, as in “wið/boþ”, which is easier to read for language learners. But the person above clearly just wants to be fancy.

    • jnod4@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      I can get behind that, having same letter for different letters cab be touð