Re: Middle English question
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 30, 1999, 22:20 |
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> You're supposed to snarl "It's pronounced exactly as it's
> spelled!" and then refuse to say any more.... :-)
>
In this case, very true, but you still need to know the values of the
characters with which it is spelled...
- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries All.
- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.