# Thornier thorn *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 30 Mar 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Tony Ellis *30 Mar 1999, 12:46* > I impetuously wrote: > -That's- thorn, yes. But I wouldn't describe it as a crossed "d", more an angular > "P". I was thinking of lowercase thorn, silly me. Uppercase thorn is indeed a "d" with a line through it - but a capital "D". So I was sort of right. A bit. No wonder I only got C's in Old English... ---