CHAT: English & "a whole pile of new letters" (wasRe: chat: aconlang of my very own :)
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Monday, June 3, 2002, 20:29 |
Tristan McLeay wrote:
> I do believe this would be the yogh of which you speak. Except that yogh
> made the /G/ sound I think. Or was yogh just the letter used for <g>? I
> can't remember...
In Old English, yogh was just the way they wrote {g}, but in Middle
English, it was adapted to represent /x/, and alternated with {gh}
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