Re: Thou/You
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 19:31 |
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At 11:38 21.6.2000 -0400, callanish wrote:
>My vowel lengths may be wrong here, but I was under the impression that
>during the Great Vowel Shift, /u:/ became /au/, thus Anglo-Saxon /Tu:/ turned
>into /Dau/, but that /o:/ turned into /u:/ or /U/ (as /go:d/ became /gUd/ and
>/do:m/ became /du:m/, which means that /ju:/ for "you" fits the pattern
>regularly, since in Anglo-Saxon it was "eow" with a long /o/ vowel.
>
>Thomas Leigh
Right thou is!
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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