Now dive, sunblind

[sovay]

Today I ate a pomegranate, proofread for eight hours, and made shewhomust's thar cakes. That's a lot less fail than yesterday.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. Thank you!

I can't replicate the first entry on the OED, which has more thorns than Sleeping Beauty's hedge, but the second is from Langland:

If you're running Windows, you can get thorns from Character Map (in Programs/Accessories/System Tools).

Or you can use the html code:

&_thorn_;

Remove the underscores, and you'll have a þ

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was working from cut-and-paste, which is hopeless.

Nine

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Most welcome!

Ah, yes, cut-and-paste can be very awkward. I wish I understood why. Pasting whole chunks of html into LJ, in particular, can be very odd--I always end up having to fix it over again.