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æ (called an ash), which sounded like the “a” of “cat”;
þ (thorn), which could sound like the voiceless “th” of “thing” or the voiced “th” of “the”;
ð (eth), which was used more or less interchangeably with the þ (thorn) for those “th” sounds;
ƿ (wynn), an early “w”;
ʒ (yogh), which could sound like “y” or like the “ch” of the German ich. (For instance, “niȝth,” a Middle English spelling of “night,” sounded like “nicht.”)
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