Talk:Then-thyn split

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English has borrowed many words from Greek. Where the original Greek had the letter <θ> (theta), English retained the pronunciation /θ/, regardless of phonetic environment.

This isn't rue in rhythm, so I'm modifying it.Cameron Nedland 17:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Delete proposal

This is a poor article with no information not already in the main article (Pronunciation of English th), so let's just delete it. Besides, who calls it "then-thyn"? Those have different vowels and are therefore not a minimal pair. I could ignore that if it were a properly established term, but since I have usually heard it as "thy-thigh", I would think that is the better designation. I see little prospect that this article will grow to offer anything new. I propose a deletion. --Doric Loon (talk) 14:44, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

The main thing that makes me question your propasl is that the terms is used and linked to regularly in Wikipedia [1]. Do you know how you would replace the term in these articles if you think it should not be called "Then-thyn split"? Should that tem have an article?--BirgitteSB 15:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, as I say, I would call it the "thy-thigh split"; but most of those linked pages seem to be "see also" kinds of links, and could be replaced with links to the main article (Pronunciation of English th), or simply be deleted in cases where it is already linked. I don't think that is the problem. The issue is whether anyone is planning to do something with this page, or whether it is simply going to stand here as a duplication of part of the main article. I suspect the latter, which makes this redundant. --Doric Loon (talk) 10:51, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm removing the prod tag from this article because it does contain more information than Pronunciation of English th. If it's thought that a separate article is not needed then the information from here should be merged into the other article and this one kept as a redirect. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:10, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Can you point out what you mean? As far as I can see, almost every sentence here is lifted verbatim from the other article. Only the list of words is new in this form, but there is a slightly differently structured list in the other one too. If I am missing something, do tell me what. --Doric Loon (talk) 14:26, 15 May 2008 (UTC)