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The Icelandic alphabet contains most of the letters of the English alphabet plus two or three rather unfamiliar ones. This one is called "Thorn" and is pronounced like an English "th".
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48 Comments
Jaimi McEntire
Thorn is also a letter from the English alphabet, one that has fallen out of use. You see remnants of it around, sometimes written as a small "y" (because of the way it looked when hand written). Such as "ye olde bookstore" - that's not a "yee" sound, that's a thorn, and its pronounced "the old bookstore".
earlepg
I thought that the Icelandic letter looked like the better guess than the other options, and it turned out to be a good thing.
Elsy O. Stromberg
David Hovis, Since when?
Joris van Pelt
Looks like a Cyrillic and Greek 'F'
memes
memes, frank pls check it
Les Griffin
Cool, mister though now I know
Glenis Nichols
So the have the 'th' sound in Icelandic. Most non English speakers find it difficult to pronounce this sound.
hdfernandez
Lucky guess
joan musicmasters
Lucky guess.
Puppermom
Very hard!🤣
James Parrillo, with Christine
Mr. McEntire, seeing ye, I never knew it had a th sound. I love languages and this language question. Thank you.
Marcella Kosse
Got it.
Suraya Choudhury
I touched the wrong answer but I probably would have got it wrong anyway as I did not know !
Pierre Poirier
Got it by process of elimination.
Humberto Carrasco
GOT IT CORRECT
Rob Farr
An interesting trivia question ... thanks.