Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Is that really an example of random changes, or of the standard taking some
> forms one 'lect and others from another.
Pretty random, I think:  a good case is "francais" vs. "danais", now spelled
"danois".  It's not likely that one dialect was used for "French" and
another for "Danish".

> the modern
> prescriptive forms _muje_ and _fo/de_ ("o/"=o-slash) are different dialects'
> treatments of originals similar to modern Swedish _möda_ och _föda_
> ("ö"=o-umlaut).
They're probably pronounced /m@j@/ and /f@j@/ anyway.  :-)

The initial v- in English "vixen" (vs. "fox") is probably an example of
the same thing.  Similarly, we write "busy" but say /bIzi/ because different
dialects set the standard orthography and the standard pronunciation.

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