Re: English questions

En réponse à John Cowan :


>It's idiosyncratic as far as anyone knows.  Another example, no longer
>reflected in the spelling, is "dwarf".  (Hey, what do you want from
>a language that has like 8 different outcomes of final /ux/ = "ough"?)
Wow! So that's why "dwarf" in Dutch is "dwerg" (pronounced about /'dvErx/).
I was wondering a bit about that.


>http://alpha.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/ is a wonderful site on the Great
>Vowel Shift, including voices reading a text in various stages of it.
It seems to be an interesting site. I'll check it at home (I don't have
sound here at work :(( ).

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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