(�orn)
It has the sound of either a voiceless interdental fricative, like 'th' as in the English word "thick", or a voiced dental fricative, like 'th' as in the English word "the". In Icelandic the usage however is restricted to the former; the voiced form is represented with the letter �� (eth).
Campaign to bring �orn back!
� has been in hiding too long! Let's bring it back.
I like th just as much as the next guy but wouldn't it be awesome to tell people that you were in part responsible for brinigng a new character to the American English Alphabet?
Start using it everyhwere you would normally use th. I wouldn't recomend using it in school papers... teachers might not yet apreciate it, but don't worry... they will!
Use it in Instant messages! Use it in your blogs!
Ways to use �orn
- Coppy the � from this web page and paste it into instant messages and onto your web pages.
-Windows codes
-� (capital thorn) ALT+0222
-� (lowercase thorn) ALT+0254
-If you are working with a unicode aware application such as Microsoft Office 2004, Text Edit, Dreamweaver, or Netscape 7 compser, You can activate the extended Roman keyboard (10.2) or the Us extended keyboard (10.3) and use these codes
-Option+T (lower)
-Shift+Option+T (cap)
HTML Special Entity codes
-� Þ (222)
-� þ (254)