Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard

beaverdownunder writes "Melbourne restauranteur Paul Mathis has developed a one-character replacement for the word 'The' – effectively an upper-case 'T' and a lower-case 'h' bunched together so they share the upright stem – and an app that puts it in everyone's hand by allowing users to download an entirely new keyboard complete not just with his 'Th' symbol, but also a row of keys containing the 10 or 15 (depending on the version) most frequently typed words in English. Mathis has already copped criticism from people who claim he is attempting to trademark a symbol that is part of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced 'tshe,' the letter represents the 'ch' sound found in the word 'chew')."

Comments

Thorn

[Dynamoo]

Thorn already exists as an obsolete form of "th". I don't think it will work it I try to enter it here, but here goes..

Bah. Doesn't go far enough.

[Chris Mattern]

I insist on the return of thorn and eth to the language! If only slashdot's character support wasn't utterly broken, I could type them here...

Re:No

[elfprince13]

Not only at, but we already have two letters to solve ðis problem (although it would help if /. didn't delete the first one).

Re:Why not promote a Dvorak keyboard instead?

[Goaway]

The comfort comes from that comfortable feeling that you are special and better than everyone else because you use a special keyboard.