Re: YAEPT after all: English diphthongs
| From: | Ina van der Vegt <gijsstrider@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 16:30 |
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I'm pretty sure it was, as the Dutch version (Ethymologically related)
of the word Price (Prijs) is spelled with 'ij', which I've always heard
was originally a spelling for [i:], and still is pronounced that way in
some local dialects.
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:22 -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> But I thought the PRICE vowel was historically a monophthong,
> specifically [i:]. If not, why did it get spelled that way?