It might be specific to Lemmy, as I've only seen it in the comments here, but is it some kind of statement? It can't possibly be easier than just writing "th"? And in many comments I see "th" and "þ" being used interchangeably.

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    Why is it that the Dutch press operators that Caxton hired to run his printing presses, seldom catch any blame for the spelling changes they made to English? The one I always remember is Ghost. Those Dutch press operators decided that Gost should look more like the the Dutch word Gheest. So Ghost got it's "h". As did ghoul because you wouldn't that to be too different......And other words got the same treatments. Thankfully many of the changes didn't stick but enough have.

    If only the printing press hadn't been introduced to English until after the Great Vowel Shift was over, spelling and spoken would be much closer aligned.

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