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Re: R: Re: English: Thou

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, June 23, 2000, 23:43
Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> In Old French, when the pronunciation was in fact /-aus/, they wrote > something like animax, reusing an old x-like manuscript abbreviation > for (Latin) -us. By the time the pronunciation had become /-o:/, the > <u> was reintroduced in analogy with other cases of <au> = /o/.
I'd read that it was written animaus, but the <us> was written in such a way as to look like <ux>. Incidentally, Portuguese has a change of -al -> -ais; with -al being pronounced (at least in some dialects, I don't know if this is standard or not) /au/. -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Glassín wafilái pigasyúv táv pifyániivav nadusakyáavav sussyáiyatantu wawailáv ku suslawayástantu ku usfunufilpyasváditanva wafpatilikániv wafluwáiv suttakíi wakinakatáli tiDikáufli!" - nLáf mÁldu nÍmasun ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor