What you refer to as archaic and pre-12 century letters are indeed still in
the Icelandic alphabet. Þ and ð are commonly used, and as a fact my last
name is written Þórsson, but due to regrettable loss of that letter from the
English alphabet, I have to substitute it with Th.
J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 15:26
Subject: [OM] Re: Another 4/3 cam and lenses.
>
> This is wonderful - your messages are coming through with the archaic
> (pre-12 century) forms of 'th' - the soft 'thorn' letter like an
> extended 'p' and I can't remember the name of the hard th as in 'the'
> which looks like a crossed 'd'. Plus of course an f substitute for an
> s in some positions which survived into Renaissance times. How do you
> do that?!!
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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