Eth

:For the Croatian, Serbian and Vietnamese letter that looks similar to ? see D with stroke

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Eth (?, ?), also spelled edh or e?, is a letter used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and present-day Icelandic, and in Faroese language which call the letter edd. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with dh. The letter had its origin as a d with a cross-stroke added. The lowercase version has retained the curved shape of a medieval scribe's d, which d itself has not.

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In Icelandic, ? represents a voiced dental fricative, as in th in English "them". (As a point of curiosity, however, the name of the letter is pronounced e?, i.e., voiceless, unless followed by a vowel.) In Faroese, ? is never pronounced, except ? before r as in a few words. In the Icelandic and Faroese alphabets, ? follows d. In Anglo-Saxon, ? may represent the same sound as in Icelandic, or the voiceless th of "thread", both of which were also represented by ? (thorn). In Middle English, ? was no longer used; the Normans did not like characters in English which did not exist in the Latin alphabet. ? and ? were replaced with th.

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Lower-case eth is used as a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet, again for a voiced dental fricative, and in IPA usage, the name of the symbol is pronounced with the same voiced sound, as . In HTML, Ð is rendered as ?, and ð, ?.

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