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thorns

/θɔːrnz/
Hình ảnh minh họa cho thorns: A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
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A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

Sách giáo khoa lịch sử giải thích rằng chữ cái "thorns" (þ) đã được dùng trong tiếng Anh cổ để biểu thị những âm mà ngày nay chúng ta viết là "th".