Re: USAGE: Language revival

"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:

>         Compared to that, even the French orthography is phonemic :) . Although
> we do have our spelling monsters too
"Oignon", which obviously should be pronounced /wanjo~/, is my favorite.
The specific problem with English "gh" is that it once indicated an /x/
which has now been lost, sometimes disappearing completely with or without
altering the vowel, sometimes changing to /f/.

Trivium: "Straight" and its immediate derivatives are the only English
words with "aigh"; it's pronounced [ej].

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