People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet

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• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s & - ampersand aka “and per se and”. The article also mentions these:

  lost letters include thorn (þ) – a soft “th” sound – and Wynn (ƿ), which was replaced by “uu”, before this was superseded by “w”. Ethel (Œ) – pronounced like the “oi” in “oil” – has also been lost, in favor of using vowel combinations to get the same job done. Yogh (ȝ) was briefly a way to denote the “ch” sounds, as found at the end of “loch”, but was soon abandoned, and the specific sound it denotes rarely used in English anymore.

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  • PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn cancel culture really did a number on the English alphabet huh

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am totally adding þese back to my keybord.

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    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In that case also add ð. If you say the words “think” and “this” out loud, they use different “th”-sounds. “These” would be “ðese”, and “think” would be “þink”.

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  • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nouu I knouu uuhy it’s called “double U”.

    Also, yogh looks too much like the Arabic numeral three, so it sort of makes sense why they got rid of it.

    I believe Œ is still used in French (though it doesn’t count as part of the alphabet), but I just spell it as OE since it just looks so ugly. Æ looks way worse though, and Icelandic still uses it.

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1840s kids will remember

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  • callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably only 1840s rich white kids.

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• tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait until you hear about other languages.

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