Re: sound change
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 17:09 |
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Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> As usual, there are lots of positonal subtleties with English vowels; cf.
> examples like _song_ (OE sa:ng) or _lord_ (OE hla:fweard = loaf-ward).
Didn't this go through a "hla:ford" stage within OE itself? If so, the
vowel of "lord" may owe more to the second vowel than the first.
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