I thought that þ was soft and ð was hard. So why are people using the þ for ð when typing?

  • isyasad@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I had assumed they were allophones and always wondered if there was a minimal pair to prove otherwise. It turns out though there is one: tooth (n) vs tooth (v), or tooþ vs tooð.