Sally Higley ;-) wrote:
> > Note the vocalism: _sceadu_, not _scadu_ (AFAIK, occurring
> > in all OE dialects; Ms. Higley could correct me)-clearly
> > with a palatalizing effect of _sc_
>
> Ms. Who? It's only us Caveses around these parts. ;-)
>
> Ms. Caves would say that there is a paucity of other dialects
> besides West Saxon. We have the _sc_ in Anglian, preserved
There were several quite different Anglian dialects. Presumably you mean
Northumbrian here.
> for us in an 8th cent. version of Caedmon's Hymn, but I couldn't
> tell you offhand how it was pronounced. The "til" suggests
> Scandinavian influence, and I suspect further influence may
> have yielded an /sk/ pronunciation instead of an /S/. But
> that is pure conjecture, and I may be mistaken.
Caedmon was quite early, and I *think* this was pronounced as /sk/, I could
be wrong.
Dan