Talk:Meadher

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As this article is about England I have changed it to UK spelling. Biscuittin 11:42, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Thorn has got nothing to do with England in particular - it was used in the UK, Germany, the low countries and Scandanavia! (btw. Unless you want to offend the Irish, Welsh, Scots, Orcadians, Shetlanders and Cornish then don't refer to the UK as England!) 195.153.45.54 15:13, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thorn and Eth

I think that you might have confused one with the other. Thorn (letter) sounds like "Thursday" or "the," but eth sounds like "them." Also, eth is the one with the crossed D, and has had "dh" as a substitute for eth not only by J.R.R. Tolkien, but also in the Scandinavian language. Could the pronunciation be "MIÐ-er?" Tsukame 15:01, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

In my local accent "the" and "them" have the same "th" sound 195.153.45.54 15:08, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thorn and AE

Thorn is not an alpha-numeric character. It's a runic character. It's present in all Northern European runic alphabets and is part of the name of some of these runic alphabets (eg. the 'th' in futhark or in 'futhorc'). It isn't called "a thorn", simply "thorn" in English (or thurisaz in Old Norse). On my computer, Wikipedia shows it as a P with a stem at the top. It should look more like a > attached to the side of a longer stem - very much like a thorn on a plant. There's a picture of how it should look on the thurisaz page.

I don't know how AE was pronounced in ages past but in modern Norse it is pronounced similarly to the 'a' in "cat" or "mat". This would mean Meather is not pronounced like "METH-er" but more like "may thur". 195.153.45.54 15:08, 23 October 2007 (UTC)