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From: Rod Dav4is <>
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Understanding abbreviations.....
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:41:51 -0500
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The old Saxon languages, including the Old Norse, had two "th" sounds,
Eth and Thorn. Glyphs for both are included in the Times New Roman font
on my XA (SP2) system: images attached.

references (Wikipedia)

1. Times New Roman <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_New_Roman>;
2. Eth <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth>; (which looks like a D with
a line through the upright, or a script d with a line through the
upright.
3. Thorn <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29>; (which
looks like a P with an extended upright)


John Slaughter wrote:

> I just checked. That is NOT the same character. Here is the Alt-0222 -
> Þ. This is called, in Character map, Latin Capital Letter Thorn. The
> Anglo-Saxon "th" looks like a capital W, or a wide U with a thin
> vertical line in the miiddle, with a horizontal tail going to the
> right. Please refer to my earlier post for the article cited in Essex
> Antiquarian.
>
> I failed to find the original cited by Bob Gillis because I forgot to
> translate the 222 to its hexadecimal equivalent of DE which is how my
> version of Character Map displays the values.
>
>
> John

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