From: | callanish <callanish@...> |
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Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 15:38 |
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