Re: More Gothic text

Roger Mills scripsit:

> The orthography doesn't help either.  In Wright's grammar, there are
> diacritics to show the 3 (assumed) pronunciations of "ai" and "au"--  )Bái, aí,
> ai etc.  "ei" represents /i:/; there are macrons over various vowels, to
> distinguish long vs. short /o/ for ex.
In fact this is not so much an assumed pronunciation as an artificial one
even more archaic than living 5th-century Gothic.  IMHO the Right Thing
is to pronounce e and o as /e/ and /o/, and ai and au as /E/ and /O/ always,
and not worry about macrons over a and u (which are pretty rare anyhow).

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