Re: USAGE: No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong)

Larry Sulky skrev:
> I thought it might be more fun to leave the spelling alone and have a
> reformed pronunciation, where we define an English dialect that
> pronounces words as they are spelt. ---Larry
>
>
It already exists, but is a dead language, sort of:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English#Pronunciation>

(There are some spelling differences between ME and
EarlyModE however: most notably they (alas) replaced _þ_
with th and introduced _ea_ and _oa_ to distinguish /E:/
from _ee_ /e:/ and /O:/ from _oo_ /o:/.  Then came the Great
Vowel Shift and ruined everything...

BTW there was a period in EarlyModE when some writers used
_aa_ in words lake _gaat_ 'gate'. A shame it didn't catch
on...)
--
/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)