Re: Doth and Doeth

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:18:47 -0500, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> Hmmm.   I'd always thought that dost and doest were pronounced alike after a
> certain point in the Renaissance.
By whom? :) I learned the pronunciations from my father (an Englishman
in Germany); no idea where he got them from. Possibly from the
Catholic church which he belonged to when he was younger, since he
didn't join the church we grew up in until after he had come to
Germany; we use the KJV but I don't know what he used to use before
that.

> How do we corroborate the pronunciation of "saith," though?
> Having spent a long time as an Episcopalian,  I'd never pronounce it as
> /'sejiT/, but rather /sET/.   But who's to say?
Hm, both sound acceptable to me, though I'd use the first
pronunciation more often.

> We need to see it in rhyming poetry to get the pronunciation.  What rhymes
> with doeth?  :)
rueth, for example (e.g. "It rueth him to ..."). Or mooeth :)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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