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> Not all words in th- are necessarily from (Old) Norse. English tends to have th where German has d
True, yes. But my understanding is that at least part of this process (of change from d to th) was driven by the collision of ON influenced language north of the Danelaw with the Germanic tribal languages to the south. Is that about right?
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