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Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media (www.euractiv.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m probably doing exactly what they want here (e.g. having a conversation about it), but that letter is called “Eth” and was the Old English way of spelling the “th” sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

A number of linguistic buffs want to bring it back to the modern English alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

~~I don't think ð was pronounced exactly the same way as th~~Seems like I was thinking of other languages where they were/are pronounced differently.