• AEsheron@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      All* the Old English characters are named with the sound they make, almost all of them starting with that sound. Æ is called Ash, and it makes the ah sound.

      • As English goes, there is of course, one exception.
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      Danish guy here who actually has æ in the alphabet. It is pretty much pronounced like ‘e’ in bet.

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        11 hours ago

        In Norway it’s more the ‘a’ in ‘ash’, which also is the English name for the letter