Re: English questions

 Adam Walker  wrote:

> Goodness.  Sounds like a homework assignment.  OE /x/
> had different outcomes depending on its position in
> the word.  I became 0 in some environments [f] in
> others and had other outcomes elsewhere.  There are
> others more knowledgable than, I but I'll leave it at
> that (at least till I'm sure this *isn't* a homework
> assignment ;-)
No, this is not a homework assignment... I'm long out of school! :)

It's for my own edification. I've had a passion for Anglo-Saxon for years, and did
a semester of it at university, but I never bothered finding out much about the
actual development of English from A-S to Modern English over the centuries. A
new conlang project of mine has actually had me looking at Old and Middle High
German (which I now know more about than I do about Modern German!) watching
the development of German has in turn gotten me interested in the development
of English. After all, what sort of language nut would I be if I carried on
knowing none of the juicy details of how my own native language evolved?

Thomas