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Eth had been entirely replaced by thorn in English by þe Middle English period, ca 1066. Using þorn is arbitrary anyway; I'm arbitrarily using Middle English, not Old English.
Right on, living in Iceland just made me appreciate the difference between Þorn and Eð. Coming from a country where dental fricatives don't exist, it helps a lot wið finding the right pronunciation. Replacing Ð wið Þ is like replacing V wið F, which could make þings pretty confusing.
Better replace U with V, to dovble the confvsion
English is so irregular, and it's annoying it's so dominant in global communications, even if I benefit. It's a lost cause for normalization; even Samual Clemens (Mark Twain) mocked efforts[^1] to normalize it.
[^1]: provenance debated, as many þings Twainish