alt Hacker NewsBut ф is absolutely not the sound that "th" makes.
In fact, in Russian, at least, we don't have a "th" sound.
But this is better than using Д in place of "A".
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tliltocatl • yesterday at 6:52 PM
It absolutely doesn't as pronounced now, yet Thomas is Фома, Theodor is Феодор, etc. Just like Hertz is Герц, even through Г and H are as far from each other as one can get.
d_silin • yesterday at 6:25 PM
Yeah, it is just фe most aesфetically pleasing letter for фis case.
Actually, for most of its existence, Cyrillic has had a θ (theta) like in Greek, used only in loanwords and pronounced either as ф (f) or т (t) because the th sound is not part of Slavic phonetics. θ was dropped fairly recently - in the 20th century.