On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer: Containing an Investigation of the Correspondence of Writing with Speech in England from the Anglosaxon Period to the Present Day, Preceded by a Systematic Notation of All Spoken Sounds by Means of the Ordinary Printing Types, Including a Rearrangement of F.J. Child's Memoirs on the Language of Chaucer and Gower, and Reprints of the Rare Tracts by Salesburv on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521, Issue 14; Issue 23Philological Society, 1869 |
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... University Library ; also from MSS . in the British Museum . The Assumption of our Lady ( Add . MSS . 10036 ) and Fragments of the Floyres and Blancheflur ( Cotton Vitellius D. iii ) , edited with notes and glossary by J. Rawson Lumby , ...
... University Library ; also from MSS . in the British Museum . The Assumption of our Lady ( Add . MSS . 10036 ) and Fragments of the Floyres and Blancheflur ( Cotton Vitellius D. iii ) , edited with notes and glossary by J. Rawson Lumby , ...
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accent Anglosaxon assonances Chaucer Conjectured Pronunciation considered consonant Cuckoo Cuckoo Song dhat dhee dhet dhis dialect diphthongs Early English edited F. J. Furnivall fæder final French words German Greek Harl Havelok heard hence icel Icelandic indicate infrà Jakh King Horn labialisation language Latin Layamon letters modern Norman and English nunciation occasionally occurs Old Norse oogh Orrmin orthography phonetic poem present printed prisun probably pronounced pronunciation provincial Rapp represented rhyme Roman de Rou Scotch scribe seems shew short vowels Skeat song sound spelling suprà syllables thiin tion transcription Translation unaccented vowel W. W. Skeat writing written XIV th century þæt þat εἰς καὶ τὴν τῆς τῶν