Re: Yogh in the news

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:53:31 -0000, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:

>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Peter Bleackley
><Peter.Bleackley@R...> wrote:
>
>>After the resignation of Charles Kennedy as leader of the UK's
>>Liberal Democrat Party, the favourite to replace him is Sir Menzies
>>Campbell, whose first name is pronounced [mINIz] or [mIN]. The
>>unusual spelling of his name is attributed to the fact that the z
>>was originally a yogh.
>
>Speaking of which, I finally, quite serendipitously, found the code
>for yogh.  I always wanted to us it for /j/ in Senjecan.  It's Alt-
>541.  It works on WordPerfect, but I doubt that it'll work here: ¡ê.
>Nope.
>
>In any case, I'm pleased with this latest addition to my Senjecan
>orthography.
>
>Charlie
>http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur
>=========================================================================
Has anyone besides me seen this song:
http://www.echoschildren.org/NonCDlyrics/Yogh.html
Yogh and Ash and Thorn
lyrics © 1995 by Catherine Faber
To the Peter Bellamy tune for"A Tree Song" (aka "Oak and Ash and Thorn" the
lyrics of which were written by Rudyard Kipling.)
which has, among others, the lines:
"The rose in May must go the way of yogh and ash and thorn. ..."
"Caught up in the rout as vowels fell out with yogh and ash and thorn. ..."

How does one pronounce "yogh"?

Tom H.C. in MI

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