English Letter Thorn

English Letter Thorn. All early printing presses came from Germany and later also Italy who had no Thorn letter in their alphabet. What is the letter thorn.

EthEdh ð and ash æ are letters in the International Phonetic Alphabet and also frequently-used phonemic symbols for English. In Old English a letter called thorn þ represented the th sound as in that in Modern English. Thorn or þorn Þ þ is a letter in the OldEnglish Gothic OldNorse OldSwedish and modern Icelandicalphabets as well as some dialects of MiddleEnglish.

Thorn or þorn Þ þ is a letter in the Old English Gothic Old Norse or þorn Þ þ is a letter in the Old English Gothic Old Norse.

Upper- and lower-case versions of the thorn character. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia but was later replaced with the digraph th except in Iceland where it survives. Both letters were used for the phoneme θ sometimes by the same scribe. What modern letter replaced the Middle English letter known as thorn.