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    Posted: January 12 2009 at 05:51
G'day Team

I'm probably being really thick here, but after writing a review of one of this Icelandic band's albums for PA, I could not find their bio in the archive with the normal search function ?

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2021

Methinks the problem is that pesky Nordic runic character at the start of their name which probably could be compromised to a more anglicized "Th" ?

I did a search on some of the older threads and this issue has been raised before (circa 2006), but I still cannot find them even under the # (no letter) section y'all.

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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2009 at 13:29
I did a litle search and found this:

Originally posted by <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29 target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)</a> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter) wrote:

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Thorn, or þorn (Þ, þ), is a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with the digraph th. The letter originated from the rune ᚦ in the Elder Fuþark, called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs ("giant") in the Scandinavian rune poems, its reconstructed Proto-Germanic name being *Thurisaz.

It has the sound of either a voiceless dental fricative, like th as in the English word thick, or a voiced dental fricative, like th as in the English word the. In Modern Icelandic the usage is restricted to the former. The voiced form is represented with the letter eth (Ð, ð), though eth can be unvoiced, depending on position within a sentence, in which case its IPA representation is given as θ (theta).

In its typography, the thorn is one of the few characters in the alphabets derived from the Latin where the modern lower case form has greater height than the capital in its normal (roman), non-italic form.


Considering this beat: "It has the sound of either a voiceless dental fricative, like th as in the English word thick, or a voiced dental fricative, like th as in the English word the. In Modern Icelandic the usage is restricted to the former.", it seems your proposal is adequate.
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2009 at 17:02
Any other opinions?
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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