Re: English: Thou
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 19:15 |
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At 15:56 21.6.2000 +0100, Dan Jones wrote:
>As to the Great Vowel Shift, /u:/ could become either /au/ or /ju:/, which
>is why tune is pronounced here in the UK as /tju:n/, from an earlier long
>vowel.
Actually /aw/ is from /u:/, but /ju/ is from /iw/, which itself could be
from either /y:/ or /ew/. Of course /y:/ was found mostly (tho not only,
since som early ME dialects had the sound) in loans from French or through
French.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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