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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago

They're using Thorn, the single character that represented the Th sound in old English (still used in Icelandic).

It's a harmless little quirk in their own writing, although editing the title of a book to include it seems pretty silly.