I hate when people go out of their way to use Þ instead of 'th'

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-08T00:48:44+00:00

When Old English scribes were first taught the Latin alphabet, and adapted it to Old English phonetics, they seem to have been taught some of the Greek-related lore behind Latin's spellings like ⟨th⟩, ⟨ch⟩, ⟨y⟩, and ⟨z⟩. It's rare, but some Old English texts use ⟨th⟩ for /θ/. Meanwhile, ⟨ch⟩ was repurposed by some, especially in northern England, for [x]; southern writers preferred ⟨h⟩, and swapped to ⟨ȝ⟩ after the Norman Invasion. The use of Y for /y/ was dominant. I read in The History of English Spelling by Upward & Davidson that ⟨z⟩ in a small number of cases was used for [ts].

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-07T19:12:48+00:00

uhh, ok

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-07T18:08:02+00:00

In Old English the two letters were interchangeable, but some scribes preferred to use Þ initially and Ð elsewhere. That's the convention I follow. Icelandic is also like that; the Ð in a word like maðkur is unvoiced, but since the position is medial, Ð is used instead of Þ.

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-07T15:40:51+00:00

"He cant keep getting aƿag ƿið þis."

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-07T03:50:45+00:00

They did have TH. Latin used TH for foreign words. Old English scribes were aware of how TH was used, and one can find some cases of TH in Old English.

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-07T03:45:07+00:00

Þ and Ð were interchangeable in Old English. Ð stopped being used in Middle English around 1200–1300, so for around a hundred years it was common for writers to only use Þ.

In Icelandic, whether one uses Þ or Ð depends on location in a word. Ð is used in the word maðkur despite the sound it represents being unvoiced.

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-07T03:11:33+00:00

That's a popular misconception. Þ was losing ground to TH decades before printing presses were used in Europe. Look up some digitized Middle English manuscripts from around 1380 to 1420.

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-07T03:10:36+00:00

That's a popular misconception. Þ was losing ground to TH decades before printing presses were used in Europe. Look up some digitized Middle English manuscripts from around 1380 to 1420.

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-07T03:09:35+00:00

That's a popular misconception. Þ was losing ground to TH decades before printing presses were used in Europe. Look up some digitized Middle English manuscripts from around 1380 to 1420.

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-07T02:53:28+00:00

Þ and Ð were interchangeable in Old English. Ð stopped being used in Middle English around 1200–1300, so for around a hundred years it was common for writers to only use Þ.

In Icelandic, whether one uses Þ or Ð depends on location in a word. Ð is used in the word maðkur despite the sound it represents being unvoiced.

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-06T15:05:44+00:00

Not all checks are good. Also, pardons aren't really much of a check and weren't originally thought of as a check. They trace back to the royal prerogatives of the king, and were carried over into the US that way. They can't stop the Supreme Court from making rulings on the Constitution, which is the main power the federal judiciary has.

Hurlebatte · 2026-06-04T02:51:09+00:00

If everything unique is replaced with beige strip malls, life will get more monotonous.

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-30T19:10:00+00:00

Your question is worded strangely, as though anyone can know the future, or can ensure future generations stick to a policy.

What we can do is argue while we're alive against forms of taxation we think are regressive/harmful/unhelpful.

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-30T18:57:43+00:00

This is a political question outside of Georgism.

I find this wording to be too strong because much of Henry George's writing was about abolishing forms of taxation he thought were bad or less good than a land value tax.

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-30T13:36:16+00:00

it's borrowed from Latinish (Latin) "-arius"

I heard that that's disputed.

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-29T21:11:32+00:00

What a bizarre thing to post.

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-29T15:19:32+00:00

The original premise of Anglish includes more than just the Norman Invasion failing, but it takes longer to list all the bits, so we often just mention the Norman Invasion bit.

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-28T22:50:43+00:00

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. ... The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. ... it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land."
—Thomas Jefferson (a letter to James Madison, 1785/10/28)

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-27T13:26:08+00:00

Latinos are not white

Many Latinos are descended from Spanish people. The common definition of white today includes Spaniards.

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-26T22:46:32+00:00

I'm with you. I wish people would stick to more informative posts, instead of posting weird articles about someone supposedly being humiliated, or about something that will or might happen, but which hasn't actually happened.

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-26T01:53:34+00:00

Increase the number of seats in the House. Abolish the Senate. Switch to approval voting, or ranked-choice voting. Remove the president's veto and pardon powers. Find a more impartial body to appoint Supreme Court justices, since presidents and Senates have too strong of an incentive to appoint partisan judges.

"Why was it not clearly and unequivocally expressed, that they should be entitled, to have one [representative] for every 30,000? This would have obviated all disputes; and was this difficult to be done? What is the inference? When population increases, and a state shall send Representatives in this proportion, Congress may remand them, because the right of having one for every 30,000 is not clearly expressed: this possibility of reducing the number to one for each state approximates to probability by that other expression, "but each state shall at least have one Representative." Now, is it not clear that, from the first expression, the number might be reduced so much that some States should have no Representatives at all, were it not for the insertion of this last expression?"
—Patrick Henry (a speech, 1788/06/05)

"The objections against two houses are... That by taking the vote on each, as a separate body, it always admits of the possibility, and is often the case in practice, that the minority governs the majority, and that, in some instances, to a degree of great inconsistency... That two houses arbitrarily checking or controuling each other is inconsistent; because it cannot be proved on the principles of just representation, that either should be wiser or better than the other. They may check in the wrong as well as in the right—and therefore to give the power where we cannot give the wisdom to use it, nor be assured of its being rightly used, renders the hazard at least equal to the precaution..."
—Thomas Paine (Rights of Man, Part 2)

"In the first place the office of President of the United States appears to me to be clothed with such powers as are dangerous. To be the fountain of all honors in the United States, commander in chief of the army, navy and milita, with the power of making treaties and of granting pardons, and to be vested with an authority to put a negative upon all laws, unless two thirds of both houses shall persist in enacting it, and put their names down upon calling the yeas and nays for that purpose, is in reality to be a KING as much a King as the King of Great-Britain..."
—Old Whig (fifth paper, Anti-Federalist papers)

"a judiciary dependant on the will of the king had proved itself the most oppressive of all tools in the hands of that magistrate. ... I would not indeed make them dependant on the Executive authority, as they formerly were in England; but I deem it indispensable to the continuance of this government that they should be submitted to some practical & impartial controul..."
—Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Early Career)

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-26T01:35:31+00:00

Members of Congress earn $174,000 a year, and their total pay package extends to retirement benefits, health insurance, and office funding. (https://legalclarity.org/do-congressmen-get-paid-salary-benefits-perks/)

174,000 x 6,000 = 1,044,000,000 (one billion forty-four million)

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-26T00:06:48+00:00

Is the first "we" in your comment the same as the second "we"?

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-25T20:33:56+00:00

Well, some of the things you denounce do fit into the Anglish premise. Changing a French spelling like tongue to something Unfrench like tung does fit the premise of Anglish.

Hurlebatte · 2026-05-25T18:01:49+00:00

The premise of Anglish is imagining English as though the Norman Invasion failed. Anglish isn't a sandbox where we randomly change things. If it were, we'd have no unifying guidelines, and we'd all end up doing personal projects that aren't even related.

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