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The English alphabet used to include letters like thorn (þ) and eth (ð) — relics from when English behaved itself.

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Old English used characters like þ (thorn) and ð (eth) to represent “th” sounds. Over time, these were replaced by “th” digraphs, influenced by printing practices and language standardization.

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