So, you know the (black) slang term for one's boyfriend/girlfriend, "boo"? As in, "Me and my boo went out to the party last night ( Read more... )

That weird character up there isn't an emoticon or foreign language-- it's English. It's called "thorn" and apparently signified the sound that we now just write as "th".  þerefore, everyþing I'm typing could be written like þis. Eeeek!

Another neat trick? Thorn went out of style pretty early on in the history of writing English down, but it was ( Read more... )