I disagree that these two letters would be much help for English learners. E.g., though, through, thought, tough. Adding thorn and eth wouldn’t fix the bigger problem there.
Also curious what you mean by saying we don’t even use voiced and unvoiced dental fricatives consistently. As far as I’m aware, I’ve never heard an accent use an unvoiced one for the word “the”.
I disagree that these two letters would be much help for English learners. E.g., though, through, thought, tough. Adding thorn and eth wouldn’t fix the bigger problem there.
Also curious what you mean by saying we don’t even use voiced and unvoiced dental fricatives consistently. As far as I’m aware, I’ve never heard an accent use an unvoiced one for the word “the”.
Bad example for the. I guess I was thinking of the e’s pronunciation. I feel like I’ve seen it. But maybe not.
I mean half the time people spell it “da”