Re: CHAT: sch
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 27, 2000, 18:44 |
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At 2:17 pm +0200 27/3/00, BP Jonsson wrote:
>At 07:02 26.3.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
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>>Indeed, why the {h}? Shakespeare spelled it 'scedule'.
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>But this must have been /sedjul/ -- leaving aside if /ju/ was still [y:],
...or /sEdiwl/ - short of someone discovering the secret of time travel,
we shan't know.
>as must the French _cedule_ be /sedyl/ and the trad. English pronunciation
>of Latin _scedula_, or am I missing something?
No - not at all.
My thesis was precisely that the word was originally pronounced with
initial /sE-/ and that the now current /SE-/ and /skE-/ pronunciations are
_both_ spelling pronunciations which arose after the 'learned restoration'
of {h} in the spelling.
Ray.
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