• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Interesting! I always thought a letter was a thing that mapped to a sound. So obviously not Chinese characters. But the thorn as the th sound would qualify.

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      1 hour ago

      Nope. Phonemes or their groups, most commonly represented by IPA characters, map to a sound. If you know anything about English spelling, you’ll know that letters and sounds don’t correspond in many cases.