Re: OE diphthongs/breaking (was: Re: Germanic vowel correspondences (was: Scots.))

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> We have -al/-owl near-homophony in these parts, too.  Which leads to
> eggcornish apocrypha like stories about Winnie the Pooh's wise friend
> Al.
Now here was me thinking that Winnie the Pooh was meant to be read...
(In any case, "Al" is often pronounced /&l/ rather than /&:l/, making it
a homophone of L and not "owl".)

--
Tristan.

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