In Old English, ⟨ð⟩ (called ðæt) was used interchangeably with ⟨ þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme / θ/ or its allophone / ð/, which exist in modern English phonology as the voiced and voiceless dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨ th⟩. The lowercase version has been adopted to represent a voiced dental fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with ⟨ dh⟩, and later ⟨ d⟩. Eth in Arial and Times New RomanĮth ( / ɛ ð/ edh, uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð also spelled edh or eð), known as ðæt in Old English, is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd), and Elfdalian. For the notations ⟨ ⟩, / / and used in this article, see IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters.
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