Re: Origins of [i\]

Den 23. feb. 2009 kl. 04.16 skreiv andrew:

> Before "l" also short "i" is often obscured.  The name "Bill" becomes
> [b@l], in ordinary spelling nearer to "Bull" than "Bill".  "Milk"
> and "silk," as in Cockney speech, become "mulk," "sulk,"
> or "mjolk," "sjolk."
Really? Could this Cockney breaking have some relation to the one in
Norse? In my dialect (Drammen), milk is called [mj@l`k], from Old
Norse _mjolk_. Official writing _mjølk_ or, with a Danish loan, _melk_.

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