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Wynn () (also spelled Wen) is a letter of the old English Alphabet . It was used to represent the sound . While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph The name of the rune, meaning " Joy , bliss", is known from the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem : : ''enne bruceþ, ðe can eana lyt'' : ''sares and sorge and him sylfa hæfþ'' : ''blæd and blysse and eac byrga geniht.'' : Bliss he enjoys who knows not suffering, : sorrow nor anxiety, and has : prosperity and happiness and a good enough house. It is not continued in the Young Futhark , but in the Gothic Alphabet , the letter ''w'' is called ''winja'', allowing a Proto-Germanic reconstruction of the rune's name as wunjô "joy". It is the only rune other than þ to have been borrowed into the English Alphabet (or any extension of the Latin Alphabet ). As with þ , wynn was revived in modern times for the printing of Old English texts, but since the early 20th century the usual practice has been to substitute the modern Wynn in Unicode References
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