Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament

Rejected petition Reintroduce The letters "Thorn" and "Eth" back into the english Alphabet

Have you ever wondered why some signs have ye olde?
because there used to be a letter called thorn (Þþ) this would make the th sound in the, but the letter eth (Ðð) made the th sound in "That" and "this" the Th sounds are very common in english and should have their own letter.

More details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS7W917ty3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUrDUxh5xS0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_orthography (Icelandic still uses eth and thorn)

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