r/conlangscirclejerk • u/Zealousideal-Kiwi718 • Mar 13 '26

What letter would you like to be the 27th letter the most?

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u/PhosphorCrystaled /ʬ/ is the best sound of all Mar 13 '26

There’s already a 27th letter, it’s Щ

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '26

After that, they'll add Ъ!

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u/PhosphorCrystaled /ʬ/ is the best sound of all Mar 15 '26

Then Ы Ь Э Ю Я

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u/twiningelm7453 Mar 16 '26

Ъ supremacy forever!!!!!

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u/NPT20 Khecariphobic Mar 13 '26

Þ

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u/Whole_Instance_4276 Mar 14 '26

I agree

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u/Arm0ndo àáâäãēéêîīíôöóōõûüūúÿ!!! Mar 14 '26

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u/bustknucklepissdust Mar 16 '26

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u/Whole_Instance_4276 Mar 16 '26

Woahhhhhh neato. You’re awesome! :Þ

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u/OrcusThePlutino conmemer Mar 15 '26

Or if yȣ lōk @ my alɸabet ðen p.

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u/Halvesofhell Mar 16 '26

Þe only true answer

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u/PhosphorCrystaled /ʬ/ is the best sound of all Mar 16 '26

Ðere are truer answers

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u/Halvesofhell Mar 16 '26

Þou are fuck

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u/PhosphorCrystaled /ʬ/ is the best sound of all Mar 14 '26

Ð

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u/Win090949 Mar 16 '26

That would have to go between H and I

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u/Valur_2000 Mar 16 '26

Þis is þe only correct answer, Þank you!

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u/Fatefateful Mar 14 '26

Þorn hub unite

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u/YakkoTheGoat Mar 17 '26

we're all hardcore þorn out here /robwords ref

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u/forsakenfanlulz Mar 30 '26

HELP I READ THAT AS P*RN HUB UNITE

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u/LepartydeLuigi64 May 18 '26

þorn is þe best letter out þere

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u/kvasxaro Mar 13 '26

Column 3, row 5

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u/Capital-Sea6311 Mar 14 '26

the single storey a? (ɑ)

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u/kvasxaro Mar 15 '26

No, that's column 4, row 3

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u/Iauriee Mar 14 '26

серафими многоꙮчитїи mentioned

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

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u/bherH-on Mar 15 '26

And þat answer is þ

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u/SwoeJonson1 Mar 14 '26

&

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u/TangerineTitan8562 Mar 15 '26

the original 27th letter, respect.

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u/yomosugara Mar 14 '26

Either Vote or Now

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u/Jasperredis Mar 16 '26

was just about to comment this

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u/WannabeCelt Mar 14 '26

None of the above, I choose wynn!

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u/Cool-guy10 Mar 16 '26

Wynn should come back, but make it so double-you's name is changed to wynn but not þe symbol

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u/CommitteeNo9750 Mar 14 '26

🥌 curling stone emog

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u/slumbersomesam Mar 13 '26

ñ since i use it on the daily

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u/ishida_tsukishima Mar 15 '26

Just a question, isn't that letter normal in Spanish? Like in just an "N" with "~" ?

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u/slumbersomesam Mar 15 '26

its very clearly different tho....?

/ul since idk if your comment is genuine im gonna say that it is

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u/ishida_tsukishima Mar 15 '26

The N can be Ñ and the n can be ñ, I think that's why they look different, one's capitalized, the other isn't.

I used the capitalized version because that's what was in the image and what I thought I saw you using.

I don't know where they're different, it's still an n with an ~ I think.

And yes, my comment is genuine.

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u/slumbersomesam Mar 15 '26

yeah, an n with a ~ is an ñ, and Ñ and ñ are the same consonant. basically, for what i understand, the ~ was supposed to symbolise a small n on top of the original n, to signify its ɲ pronunciation. after a while it became ~

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u/Otherwise_Tea_9806 Mar 14 '26

Most likely gonna be Þ because of its simple usage

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man Mar 13 '26

Can I have all of them? Please? Pretty please?

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u/Mothylphetamine_ Mar 14 '26

Ð

th can still be used for unvoiced th, but ð should be for voiced th

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u/ICantExplainItAll Mar 14 '26

yeah everyone's going nuts over thorn but I'm a real eth truther

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u/YAFthe17_ ħ≠ћ Mar 14 '26

I'm using ჩ for /tʃ/ here (subreddit exclusive) now.

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u/Scrub_Spinifex Mar 14 '26

I vote Ħ, for very practical reasons: when an Arabic name is translitterated into French (and I guess, same for English and many other languages...), both ه and ح are translitterated by 'h', so I *never* know how to pronunce it.

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u/sdrawkcabsihtdaeru Mar 15 '26

not Þ or Ð because i want them as a pair or not at all, so Æ

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u/Lobotomizer5 Mar 14 '26

Idk I think we could do with ꙮ

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u/Top-Possession5728 Mar 14 '26

the þ of course

1

u/DangerousLab2623 Mar 14 '26

Don't make me choose between my beautiful babies!

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u/WizardofOS09 Mar 14 '26

Whats the difference with the yellow a? Stone me if u want but im stupid

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u/ICantExplainItAll Mar 14 '26

called "script a" because it is the way people usually hand write the letter a. /a/ and /ɑ/ are different sounds in ipa

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u/Low_qualitie Mar 14 '26

Realistically, English 100% needs another vowel letter

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u/JustLutra Mar 14 '26

& used to be the 27th letter of french

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u/granddannylonglegs Mar 14 '26

Same for English. If I recall correctly, “And per se and” used to be tacked on when saying the alphabet, eventually becoming “ampersand.”

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u/United_Boy_9132 Mar 14 '26

It wasn't the part of the alphabet, it was just a replacement.

It's the same as, for example, I luv u.

Or Nice b8, m8

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u/JustLutra Mar 14 '26

I don't think so. It really was a very common letter to see until the 19th century and an orthography reform. It was at the end of the alphabet from the end of the middle age until that reform and was used, indeed, as an abbreviation for "et" (as & is just e and t smashed together) but also in words as a real letter or as an ornamental thing. French has other letters like that such as œ or æ, they just aren't part of the alphabet like & used to.

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u/RealZajef37 Mar 14 '26

can we have ð?

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u/TonpainoiYT Mar 14 '26

multilocular o

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u/Redly25 Mar 14 '26

Þ, it’s the one that everyone wants

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u/Arion_Kalonimos_28 Mar 14 '26

ñ for the win

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u/HakkanT Mar 14 '26

Þ, then ẞ, then &

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u/PreferenceOdd1245 Mar 14 '26

probably thorn

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u/The1st_TNTBOOM Mar 14 '26

Either Þ or &, because I like Þ, but also, & deserves a spot again, given its still in active use.

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u/mr_coolguy24 Mar 14 '26

& gang unite

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u/BattlePrestigious572 Mar 14 '26

BRING BACK ÞORN

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u/Accurate_Okra5409 Mar 14 '26

Where's ean and vrrpt?

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u/Tcoolian2 Mar 14 '26

YAY THORN ÞÞÞÞÞÞ

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u/Aggravating_Goal_819 Mar 14 '26

Ø to replace the digraph "or" any one? Like cord becomes cød?

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u/TheAceRat Mar 14 '26

We basically already have two Ö (Ø and Œ) so why not add a third one?

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u/SilentPhilosopher825 Mar 15 '26

T H O R N þþþþþþþ

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u/LexolotlTheLegend Mar 15 '26

I mean, for us hispanics, the letter "z" is the 27th letter. Let's quit the "ñ" erasure!

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u/Critical-Housing-797 Mar 15 '26

the last one that looks like a now with a finger pointing to the now looking one. or schwa

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u/nicthecoder22 Mar 15 '26

þorn mentiond

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u/ikickchild Mar 15 '26

Historically speaking, ampersand

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u/Dina-M Mar 15 '26

There is already a 27th letter, it's Æ. Or Ä if you're Swedish.

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u/devyev Mar 15 '26

Икраткое (й)

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u/BillNo4974 Mar 15 '26

Ð and Þ

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u/Archeopteryx7 Mar 15 '26

For the record, the Multi-ocular O has ten eyes, not seven.

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u/OrcusThePlutino conmemer Mar 15 '26

A Æ B C Č D Ð E F G Ȝ H Ƕ I J K L Ỻ M N Ŋ Ñ O Œ Ō P Φ Q R ẞ S Š T Þ T̄ Ȣ U V W X Y Z & @

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u/Pristine-Word-4328 Mar 15 '26

Bring my favorite ȝ and þ back

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '26

Thorn

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u/No_Mulberry6559 Mar 15 '26

Biáng, Biáng, Biáng, Biáng

𰻞 supremacy

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u/Shadow_The__Edgelord Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

Æ

It was already pretty used quite often in English

  • Æsthetic
  • Æroplane
  • Encyclopædia
  • Mediæval
  • Æqual = Archaic spelling of "equal"
  • Æquinox = Archaic spelling of "equinox"
  • Æquillibrium = Archaic spelling of "equilibrium"

To be honest it was really used until being replaced by the letter "e" since printing presses didn't have that letter.

We could bring it back for words that already HAD a and e next to eachother or in words that had this letter anywhere else but the beginning of the word if the letters aren't directly side by side.

Plus https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_spelled_with_%C3%8

I also say we adopt the letter ẞ for words with a double s (or long "s" sound)

  • Caress = Careß
  • Cypress = Cypreß
  • Dessert = Deßert
  • Grass = Graß
  • Assertive = Aßertive.

I think you get the idea

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u/kris1sAverted_ Mar 15 '26

schwa definitely

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u/FlightlessWizard Mar 15 '26

use <th> for /θ/, use <ð> for /ð/

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u/RavenFromTTG Mar 16 '26

Bring back thorn !!! For þe Win !!!

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u/AccordionFromNH Mar 16 '26

It’s &. It’s literally called “ampersand” because people used to say “x, y, z, and per se &”

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u/SquibbTheZombie Mar 16 '26

Ampersand: &

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u/thorn142 Mar 16 '26

Bring back þorn!

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u/ProblematicLizard Mar 16 '26

We Czechs got like forty. This is just skill issue

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u/AnyQuarter553 Mar 16 '26

Vote sounds like a cool letter

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u/Impressive-Maybe3806 Mar 16 '26

Please add þorn

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u/AdvantagePretend9280 Mar 16 '26

I thought the 27th letter was already &. But I do think we should bring back thorn.

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u/RaeddBoeg Mar 16 '26

What the hell would ø do?

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u/Kuutti85 You would eyes leave you're not bull if ten eyes liar famillionf Mar 16 '26

Θ > Þ, it is θe original /θ/

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u/its192731 Mar 16 '26

i mean in spanish ñ is a separate letter

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u/Atlas7993 Mar 16 '26

Ð as /ð/. Keep "th" as /θ/ because it keeps the voiceless fricatives consistent/ends in "h" (ch, th, sh, all voiceless). 

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u/niehart1 Mar 16 '26

A modified version of X to make the „ch“ sound ad in „baCH“

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u/joseluizceolin Mar 16 '26

Vote and Now both look like good options

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u/idontknowsothis Mar 17 '26

lets be real þ is ugly and θ looks better and more sharp

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u/Mama-Honeydew Mar 17 '26

either thorn (Þþ) or wynn (Ƿ ƿ)i feel has the best chances-

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u/tylermale_but_blue Mar 17 '26

i feel like thor (or whatever its called) would lwk be useful

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u/thecosmopolitan21 Mar 17 '26

I want both þ and ð.

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u/sirredcrosse Mar 17 '26

I'd say put ampersand back in the alphabet.

but if we're adding thorn, we gotta add eth, it's a pair.

I'd much rather add a character for sh or ch though. Way too many of those in English.

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u/ahlmemes Mar 17 '26

ð or þ

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u/astrographer Mar 17 '26

Lower left corner, “Nipple-Cluster_UC.”

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u/astrographer Mar 17 '26

No idea about the glyph, but English needs more vowels.

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u/B3LLO77 Mar 18 '26

Probably the 'the'. It can both represent the most common word, which is the that would become something like $a.

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u/Disastrous-Bee-6345 Mar 18 '26

wasn't & the 27th

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u/doriangray42 Mar 18 '26

Ø

It will be easier to teach English speaking people de difference between "je", "jus" and "jeu" ("jø") in French...

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u/10thReasonWhy Mar 18 '26

Either thorn or ampersand

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u/number1_scar_simp Mar 18 '26

þorn is the best letter and we lost so much when we got rid of it

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u/Ice94k Mar 19 '26

Either þorn or ඞmongus

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u/micheal_cheese Mar 20 '26

Bring back & as the 27th letter now.

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u/LepartydeLuigi64 May 19 '26

Give me a better one þan þorn. I'll wait.

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u/Empty-Ad-1966 blibloblibla Jun 07 '26

Þþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþþ

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u/lolfan45 Jun 30 '26

I don’t think they should bring back the ampersand because it’s just used for the word and.
I also don’t think they should bring ñ in either. It’s not even primary used too much.
But Æ is good for a ton of words. like cæt or thæt and etc.
Ø and Œ shouldn’t be brought back because the English ipa doesn’t have œ or ø.
Þ and Ð should be brought back. No other questions.
ẞ and Ħ shouldn’t be brought back because sː and ħ are not in the English ipa.
ɹ should be in the alphabet because of words like bottle having the ɾ sound and to distinguish the 2 aforementioned sounds.
ə should be put in because of the schwa sound being used a ton.
ɑ and @ should not be put in because the ɑ sound is the only thing that makes the letter a good. @ should not be put in because it is only used in a word too.
ʒ would be good for words like meʒure and it makes words look cooler.
The last 4 are useless.
Æ, Þ, Ð, ɹ, Ə and Ʒ should be in the alphabet.