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Re: NB as Xy
- Subject: Re: NB as Xy
- From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:03:38 -0400
Harry Binswanger wrote:
IIRC, it is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet
to represent one of the th sounds (there are two in English: this and
though).
I thought, from crossword puzzles, that that was "edh."
Yes, edh is the one used for the other th sound. I can NEVER
remember which is which. And edh was also used in OE and is still
used in Icelandic--I think.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx