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Refresh my memory, Rob or Arni, but as well as 'thorn' did we not once have
a little friend called 'wynn'?
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The slashed thorn is the medial -- wynn is Arni's initial bollocksed p.
(Sorry, i can only ever do anything outside the 256 ascii set if i cut and
paste.)
The Two Lost Letters are the thorn and the wynn (terrible twins, as they
were identically pronouned [at least in the Real World -- dunno how the hell
this plays in the land of the glaciers]. Then there's the yogh, which
afterlifes as zed, or if you're being particulate, 3.
But look, Arni is the expert on this -- he lives in the shadow of the smoke
from Snaefels Junkel. I'm a mere illiterate Denniston kid who mashed his
left knee tobogganing down the hill behind the Palais on a copy of the Beano
annual perched on a single roller-skate.
Problem with that was there were no brakes, and if you were touching fifty
when you encountered a three-foot-high brick wall ... Unfunny.
Robin
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