But modern English doesn’t use thorn or eth, so there are no rules about using them. There is absolutely no reason to enforce an arbitrary standard on someone using thorn in a historically precedented way. They’re not “breaking the rules” in the first place.
But modern English doesn’t use thorn or eth, so there are no rules about using them. There is absolutely no reason to enforce an arbitrary standard on someone using thorn in a historically precedented way. They’re not “breaking the rules” in the first place.
On the contrary, they are breaking the rules - of modern English. And I’m disagreeing with their way of doing it.
And yes, this is “right” and “wrong” as a matter of taste more than anything, but then again so is using thorn and eth.