Re: Middle English question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 30, 1999, 3:30 |
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JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:
> Also, one small point: "nother" was probably [no:Der] rather than
> [no:Ter]. Voicing of intervocalic fricatives like "th" goes right
> back to Old English,
D'oh! I knew that.
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"[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not
speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
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