Re: Future English Jam

Ray Brown wrote:

> veritosproject@GMAIL.COM wrote:
> > Change number three is: the vowel in "camp" becomes the vowel in
> > "cap", and in all other examples.
>
> I may be getting a bit senile, but - er.. - isn't that a *non-change*?
> In the various varieties of English I've encountered over the past 60+
> years the vowels in "camp" & "cap" have, er, sort of been the same,
> namely /&/.
>
My thought exactly...........

A long time ago I fantasized a Post-Russo-American-Nuclear-Apocalypse
English (yes, that long ago.  Another great story/novel never written
:-(( )-- in which, as best I recall, a Great Vowel Shift happened again.

/I/> E e.g. [tEs] 'it is' and I think /E/ > [&] or maybe /I/ [b&st ~bist ?]
'best'
/ay/ > [&y] [m&y]'my', /aw/ probably > [&w] [h&ws] 'house'
/ey/ maybe > /i: ~iy/ [tSi:ntS] 'change' (and final devoicing of course).

Don't remember much else, offhand. It was fun while it lasted.