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Thorn or þorn ( Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but it was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives.
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century.
Eth in Arial and Times New Roman. Eth ( / ɛð / edh, uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð; also spelled edh or eð ), known as ðæt in Old English, [1] is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd ), and Elfdalian. It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced ...
A modified version of the letter wynn called vend was used briefly in Old Norse for the sounds /u/, /v/, and /w/ . The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the classical Latin alphabet 's P, [4] or Q, [citation needed] or from the Rhaetic's alphabet 's W. [5] As with þ, the letter wynn was revived in ...
The letter yogh (ȝogh) (Ȝ ȝ; Scots: yoch; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes. It was derived from the Insular form of the letter g, Ᵹᵹ. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh.
Eng or engma ( capital: Ŋ, lowercase: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a voiced velar nasal (as in English singing) in the written form of some languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet . In Washo, lower-case ŋ represents a typical [ŋ] sound, while upper-case Ŋ represents a voiceless [ŋ̊] sound.
Æ(lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters aand e, originally a ligaturerepresenting the Latindiphthongae. It has been promoted to the status of a letterin some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It was also used in Old Swedishbefore being changed to ä.
I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.