[Main Blog Post] Eirik Westcoat and the American Futharch

[jprussell]

Eirik Westcoat is the modern poet from whom I have learned to craft verse in Germanish meters, and he has constructed a new set of Runestaves fitted to the sounds of modern English. Along the way to explaining why he did that, though, he just happened to drop a remarkable insight into one of the mysteries of Runic scholarship.

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[jprussell]

That's correct (I had been wondering which alliterations you were noticing) - thence and thither are both voiced in most American dialects (I think one of his subpages talks a bit about dialectical variation within America). For what it's worth, in various less-formal/more slangy dialects, you sometimes get voiced /th/ -> /z/ and unvoiced /th/ -> /d/. Example's include "Howzat?" ("how's that?") and "who dis?" ("Who's this?"), but these are universally heard as uneducated/informal and/or associated with various ethnic accents.