Re: Yogh in the news
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 14, 2006, 20:31 |
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Paul Bennett skrev:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:56:24 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
> wrote:
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>> On 1/14/06, Thomas Hart Chappell <tomhchappell@...> wrote:
>>
>>> How does one pronounce "yogh"?
>>
>>
>> Just like it's spelled. :)
>>
>> I pronounce it /joG/, but I don't know if that's justified
>> historically or not. In any case, most Anglophones don't pronounce it
>> that way, since [G] doesn't exist in native English phonology. I've
>> heard all three of /jog/, /jox/, and /jok/; I'm assuming the last is
>> the one intended for the song, since it rhymes with "oak".
>
>
> I'm prone to pronouncing it "yoȝ" myself, which AFAICT is /jouG/ ~
> /jouM\/ m.m. your personal "long o".
The Longman Pronouncing Dictionary (JC Wells) gives /jQg/ or /joug/.
I believe that if the Middle English word /jox/ had survived
it would have been pronounced /jou/ or /jau/, or maybe /jQf/.
I'm afraid any pronunciation with /G/ is entirely unhistorical
since ME |gh| spelled /x/; /G/ had become /j/ or /w/ already in
late Old English times.
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/BP 8^)
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