Re: Scripting was Re: Pablo is back, Job, Argentina, Relay, Lord of the Rings

Andreas Johansson wrote:

> In my mother's handwriting the word "aluminium" looks like "aluuuuuuu" with
> a coupla dots above the u's. And my signature tends to degenerate at the
> end, so that the final "sson" tends more resemble "no-" ...
It was because of this effect that the standard spelling of Middle
English changed "un" and "um" and "uf" pretty consistently to "on" and
"om" and "ov"; that is why "some" and "home" don't rhyme, why
"son" and "sun" are pronounced the same, and why "love" has a bogus
"e" at the end (otherwise it would have been read "lou").

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