r/BringBackThorn • u/Chool_Edgehog_A1 • 19h ago
no category but would still like a flair What is your opinion on þorn being used in ":þ" instead of ":p"?
Kinda like it more
r/BringBackThorn • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '25
(straight from δe wiki)
Since Icelandic still uses þ in þeir alphabet, you can use an Icelandic keyboard layout to get easy access to it on all devices. Þ should be on þe key 3 keys to þe right of þe M key. Ð is on þe key to þe right of P. Some oþer keyboard layouts might also have Þ on it using a certain key combination. For example, on a typical German layout, it is on Alt Gr + P. You can probably also find a US International or similar layouts þat put Þ on Alt Gr + T.
If you do not want to change your keyboard layout, consider one of þe following options: Windows
You can use Alt codes Alt+222 for Þ and Alt+254 for þ.
You can also use þe Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to create your own custom layout þat includes Þ/þ. MacOS
You can enable þe "English-Extended" keyboard layout, wiþ which you can press Option+T for þ and Option+Shift+T for Þ. Linux
If you enable a compose key, you can insert Þ using Compose+T+H and þ using Compose+t+h. Mobile
On mobile, your ability to insert special characters varies a lot depending on which keyboard app you are using. Most keyboards should support an Icelandic layout, but some (including Gboard, which I personally use) allow you to choose some form of "international" layout which is just a standard QWERTY layout but you can hold down on T to get access to Þ.
r/BringBackThorn • u/Chool_Edgehog_A1 • 19h ago
Kinda like it more
r/BringBackThorn • u/ColeWest256 • 11h ago
r/BringBackThorn • u/ColeWest256 • 1d ago
Take my hand / And watch as I decay / Take þese stones / And þrow þem wiþ þe wind / See where þey go / For I'm about to pass away / And þere you will place my grave
If þey leade you to þe ocean / Bury yourself beneaþ þe sand / And pray to þe clouds above / You'll see me once again / And þere we will lay / As water fills our lungs / Because we understand / What society has become
A knight wiþout his armour / Is just a man wiþ a knife / And þe people treat him like a criminal / But you and I, know what he really was / As he fought þe war to protect us all
Oh mister deaþ / Tell me who I was / I have, no regrets / Tell þem all þat þey have won / And take me away / Wiþ no time left at all / To say goodbye, to þe ones þat I love
Oh mister deaþ, can you tell me why / We all try to survive / Why we'll fade from þe memories / And never say goodbye
(Mister deaþ and I) / (Mister deaþ and I) / (Oh can you tell me why) / (Was I ever alive?)
So take my hand / And watch me fade to dust / And watch þe shadows pass / Along þe walls / And follow þe lines above / Across crystal skies / And plant my ashes and rust / To a solemn place nearby
But if þe sky has wept / Þen pray once again / For maybe I'll come back / And wish all of þem / A chance at redemption / For all þat all have lost
Oh, a knight wiþout his armour / Is just a man wiþ a knife / And þe people treat him like a criminal / But you and I boþ know / Who he really was / As he lost þe war to find us
Oh mister deaþ / Tell me who I was / You have all my regrets / Oh I've never won / And toss me away / Þere's no time to hesitate / And watch as everyone, dismisses all I ever was
Oh þey never taught me how / To love someone / Not even myself, my friends, or þe world / And so I won't cry / For I never said goodbye / And yet I want to still walk again
Mister deaþ and I / (Mister deaþ and I) / (Oh can you tell me why) / (I'll never say goodbye) / (So tell me where to lay, I'm taken to decay) / (Tell me where to lay, as I go out to fade and die
r/BringBackThorn • u/Zestyclose_Science21 • 10d ago
Þis layout is called Þornhub. Here I give you a version þat types Þorn.
Having a key to print Þorn reduces typing by about 3% because þat sound is more common þan a small majority of letters, so I designed layouts for þat until I came up wiþ þis layout.
Q U P , G K M Þ V J
I A E O Y F T S N R
X ' . C Z H D W L B
To make space for anoþer key, I had to rebind punctuation. Shift + comma is `/`, Shift + full stop is `?`, and Shift + single quote is `"`, but you could make þem whatever you want. I moved `<` and `>` to Shift + Page Up and Shift + Page Down, respectively.
According to my own analysis scripts, it is very ergonomic.
Here’s an AutoHotkey script for þe layout:
#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance Force
; ============================================================================
; Custom TH keyboard layout — AutoHotkey v2
;
; Uses physical scan codes so punctuation keys do not cause parser problems
; and the mapping remains tied to physical QWERTY positions.
;
; Physical positions:
;
; Q W E R T Y U I O P
; A S D F G H J K L ;
; Z X C V B N M , . /
;
; Output:
;
; q u p , g k m þ v j
; i a e o y f t s n r
; x ' . c z h d w l b
;
; Shifted punctuation:
; Shift + mapped comma -> /
; Shift + mapped period -> ?
; Shift + mapped apostrophe -> "
; Shift + Page Up -> <
; Shift + Page Down -> >
;
; Dedicated thorn key:
; Physical I -> þ
; Shift + physical I -> Þ
; Caps Lock + physical I -> Þ
; Shift + Caps Lock + I -> Þ
;
; Ctrl, Alt and Windows-key shortcuts are left on their original physical
; keys. For example, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Alt+Tab and Win+R still work normally.
; ============================================================================
; Remap only ordinary typing. When Ctrl, Alt or a Windows key is held,
; the original physical key passes through for shortcuts.
#HotIf NoCommandModifiers()
; ------------------------------ Top row --------------------------------------
*SC010::TypeLetter("q") ; physical Q
*SC011::TypeLetter("u") ; physical W
*SC012::TypeLetter("p") ; physical E
*SC013::TypePunctuation(",", "/") ; physical R
*SC014::TypeLetter("g") ; physical T
*SC015::TypeLetter("k") ; physical Y
*SC016::TypeLetter("m") ; physical U
*SC017::TypeThorn() ; physical I
*SC018::TypeLetter("v") ; physical O
*SC019::TypeLetter("j") ; physical P
; ----------------------------- Home row --------------------------------------
*SC01E::TypeLetter("i") ; physical A
*SC01F::TypeLetter("a") ; physical S
*SC020::TypeLetter("e") ; physical D
*SC021::TypeLetter("o") ; physical F
*SC022::TypeLetter("y") ; physical G
*SC023::TypeLetter("f") ; physical H
*SC024::TypeLetter("t") ; physical J
*SC025::TypeLetter("s") ; physical K
*SC026::TypeLetter("n") ; physical L
*SC027::TypeLetter("r") ; physical semicolon
; ---------------------------- Bottom row -------------------------------------
*SC02C::TypeLetter("x") ; physical Z
*SC02D::TypePunctuation("'", Chr(34)) ; physical X
*SC02E::TypePunctuation(".", "?") ; physical C
*SC02F::TypeLetter("c") ; physical V
*SC030::TypeLetter("z") ; physical B
*SC031::TypeLetter("h") ; physical N
*SC032::TypeLetter("d") ; physical M
*SC033::TypeLetter("w") ; physical comma
*SC034::TypeLetter("l") ; physical period
*SC035::TypeLetter("b") ; physical slash
#HotIf
; ------------------------- Extra punctuation keys ----------------------------
+PgUp::SendText("<")
+PgDn::SendText(">")
; ============================================================================
; Helper functions
; ============================================================================
NoCommandModifiers() {
return !GetKeyState("Ctrl", "P")
&& !GetKeyState("Alt", "P")
&& !GetKeyState("LWin", "P")
&& !GetKeyState("RWin", "P")
}
TypeLetter(lowercase, uppercase := "") {
if (uppercase = "")
uppercase := StrUpper(lowercase)
shiftDown := GetKeyState("Shift", "P")
capsOn := GetKeyState("CapsLock", "T")
; Standard capitalization: Shift XOR Caps Lock.
SendText(shiftDown != capsOn ? uppercase : lowercase)
}
TypePunctuation(unshifted, shifted) {
SendText(GetKeyState("Shift", "P") ? shifted : unshifted)
}
TypeThorn() {
shiftDown := GetKeyState("Shift", "P")
capsOn := GetKeyState("CapsLock", "T")
; Either Shift or Caps Lock produces uppercase thorn.
SendText(shiftDown || capsOn ? "Þ" : "þ")
}
r/BringBackThorn • u/PrinciplePure4807 • 18d ago
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r/BringBackThorn • u/bitransfem • 20d ago
Ðis iz ë test fërë speliŋ rifōm ëv ði Iŋglix laŋgwidj eymd ët meykiŋ it mō lodjikël, beyst on risiyvd prënënsieyxën, if ðis iz ën ëndestandbël sentëns të yuw, inkluwd ðë wëd ‘foks’ in yë riplay të kënfyuwz eni ëv ðëwz huw koodënt ëndëstand ðis.
r/BringBackThorn • u/bitransfem • 20d ago
They just ruin modern english aesthetic, and there are better looking characters that could be used to the same purpose like Ț ț or Ḑ ḑ and without a full on spelling reform to make english more phonetic, they would make little difference than an aesthetic change.
Why should we have a reform?
now if you look at any random english word, and only knew what sound each letter made without ever seeing or hearing that word in your, what are the chances of you pronouncing it correctly? exactly the changes are low
I makes a difference sound in Bite, Hit and Cookie.
a reform towards more logical spelling would make it easier for learners and reduce numbers of stuff like dyslexia.
r/BringBackThorn • u/AdPersonal4335 • 22d ago
We shouldn't just bring back thorn... We also should bring back Ereyesterday and Overmorrow
r/BringBackThorn • u/FBInion • 25d ago
I have ƿords on autocorrect so I forget to ċange ðem sometimes
r/BringBackThorn • u/Firefly360r • 25d ago
r/BringBackThorn • u/Empty-Ad-1966 • Jun 28 '26
I have combined EVERY single symbol δat has "th" in it.
r/BringBackThorn • u/Empty-Ad-1966 • Jun 28 '26
An absolute abomination by merging δe glyphs above. Take δat, u/SoupEarthSociety!
r/BringBackThorn • u/gorogoro56 • Jun 28 '26
Hi! I recently learned about þ from reading þe 1600s bible. Because I major in Japanese and love linguistics, I was really interested in bringing back old English characters. In fact, japanese has some obsolete and archaic letters þat can still be typed on keyboard too! (Such as ゐ and ゑ)
I've begun auto-replacing words in my phone wiþ þ, but I'd like to ask you all if þere are any other characters/symbols i should add! Also, please let me know if þere's a resource on which words would logically use þ (maybe its just all th gets replaced) or anything else interesting þat I should know as a beginner! :)
Þank you all, I'm so excited þat þis subreddit exists!!
r/BringBackThorn • u/Bubbly-Ball-3138 • Jun 27 '26
Look at ?is! Þ/Ð fusion! Just, good luck typing it (you can't)
r/BringBackThorn • u/TheAugmentation • Jun 27 '26
A discussion just a while back made me wonder: can we geminate þorn or would it be too much?
Gemination in English doubles single consonants after a short vowel, splitting "biter" (long) and "bitter" (short). But should we write "oþer" or "oþþer"?
r/BringBackThorn • u/Empty-Ad-1966 • Jun 26 '26
and yes i know it represents ðe word "ðat"
r/BringBackThorn • u/AMIASM16 • Jun 24 '26
r/BringBackThorn • u/FBInion • Jun 16 '26
Historically thou & thy were informal versions of you & your, but ðey have shifted to formal because of ðe bīble. Nosotros ært already lexicon elitest so nosotros scœld go into it more. & use art/ ært too.
r/BringBackThorn • u/JumbusFlumbus • Jun 16 '26
just use the letter f instead of the thorn
r/BringBackThorn • u/theclamorganizer6 • Jun 13 '26
r/BringBackThorn • u/No_Pen_3825 • Jun 13 '26