Re: CHAT behove etc (was: Natlag: Middle English impersonal verbs)

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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>


>> And on both sides of the Pond we continue to write 'dove', 'love' &
>> 'shove', despite the absurdity of the spelling.
And "above."  But cove, dove, rove.  And then there is great, steak, but
meat, beat, seat.  And Donne has tear rhyming with bear.  And Shakespeare
punned on reason and raisin.  You wonder why some words changed their
pronunciation and others not.

> At least that reminds us, while reading e.g. Donne, that "prove" and
> "love" did rhyme at one time.  :)
Shakespeare:

Let me not to the marriage of true mindes
Admit impediments.  Loue is not loue
Which alters when it alteration findes
Or bends with the remouer to remoue.

> At this point I feel I must quote from my mom's college paper on
> Donne, written entirely in verse (her idea, not part of the
> assignment):
>
> John Donne, you Elizabethan scamp
> I read "The Bait"; my eyes grew damp
> "Come live with me and be my love
> And we will some new pleasures prove"
> Sure beats saying "Let's shack up!"
> Or, even worse, "C'mon, let's groove!"
> She got an A. :)
As well she should have!  Brava!

Sally

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