(The sound was lost during the Middle English period).Latin had no such sound. y (a form of i) was used to indicate the sound. How do we know? Cf Old English "fyrst" and Modern German "Fürst", Estonian "vürst" (an old Low German loan). In Old English texts we come across several · runic letters · modified Latin letters. Both used to denote sounds that Old English had and Latin did not. Thorn-letter (runic) and edh-letter (modified Latin d) for the // sound (close to t and d) used indiscriminately for both the voiceless and the voiced variant. Thorn, or orn (, ), is a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with the digraph th. The letter originated from a rune in the Elder Fuark, called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs ("Thor", "giant") in the Scandinavian rune poems, its reconstructed Proto-Germanic name being *Thurisaz.
Role adj. functional v. function It is the function of the director to organize and lead the department. Most appliances cannot function without electricity. fundamental adj. a primary or basic element adv. fundamentally Syn. essential The student government promised fundamental changes in the registration process. He is fundamentally strong in his area of expertise. indiscriminate adj. not chosen carefully; unplanned adv. indiscriminately Syn. arbitrary The indiscriminate arrangement of the products made the store confusing. The book's chapters seem to be organized indiscriminately. selective adj. carefully chosen adv. selectively Syn. discriminating adj. select v. select n. selection n. selectivity They were very selective when they chose the members of the academic team. He selected Spanish as his language class. spacious adj
defense. So is cryptanalysis. In war, of course, cryptanalysis can look like a positive good, especially when it saves lives. Even in peace, cryptanalysis may be a form of self-defense. It can warn of hostile intent and enable the government to preserve life and liberty, without which there is no doing to others of any kind. But when a nation is not threatened, it is wrong for it to violate another's dignity by clandestine pryings into its messages, just as it is wrong to indiscriminately tap telephone lines or invade the privacy of a man's castle. That is why it is indefensible for the United States to read the messages of friendly nations like Norway, Britain, or Peru. Even when justified, cryptanalysis remains an evil, and it goes against the American grain. Ever since July 4, 1776, the United States has stood for morality and integrity, in international affairs as in domestic, in the Fourteen Points as in the Emancipation Proclamation. It is this stand
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