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  1. From: uunet!mcvax!rhi.hi.is!magnus (Magnus Gislason)
  2.  
  3. In article <170@longway.TIC.COM>
  4. > From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
  5. > 
  6. > A recent posting has inquired about what the Eth and Thorn characters
  7. > look like.
  8. > 
  9. >     [...long description of the Eth and Thorn characters...]
  10. >
  11. Unfortunately 'rja' doesn't seem to be very familiar with Icelandic or
  12. these special Icelandic characters.
  13.  
  14. The only character he (she?) described correctly (at least as I could
  15. understand it) was uppercase Eth.
  16.  
  17. This is what they approximately look like in Icelandic:
  18.  
  19.      ETH           eth                THORN        thorn
  20.  
  21.      ----          \ /                |            |
  22.      |   \          \                 |            |
  23.      |    \        / \                |---         |
  24.     ---   |         _ \               |   >        |---
  25.      |    /        / \|               |---         |   \
  26.      |   /        |   |               |            |   /
  27.      ----          \_/                |            |---
  28.                                                    |
  29.                                                    |
  30.                                                    |
  31.  
  32. For those who don't know which sounds these characters represent, they
  33. both sound like 'th' in English. 'Eth' as in 'this' and 'thorn' as in
  34. 'think'.
  35.  
  36.         Magnus Gislason
  37.         University of Iceland,       Internet:  magnus@rhi.hi.is
  38.         Computing Center (RHI)       Uucp:  ...!mcvax!hafro!rhi!magnus
  39.  
  40. Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 9
  41.  
  42.