[Spellyans] fleece

[Daniel Prohaska]

“Fleece” is only ever attested with êu or ew; I would go for knew and not allow **knyw.

Dan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: nicholas williams
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:45 PM



"In the KS document revision 15 it says that <yw> and <ew> appear to be in free variation in the texts in words like gwew, pew, ew, and gew 'woe'. We write these with <yw> , so knyw is  

correct in KS. Cf. Tregear's ew 'is' which we write <yw>.  The diphthong is [Iu]."

 

 

On 25 Du 2009, at 17:29, Michael Everson wrote:

 

> There is such a difference in KS; yw is [iʊ] and ew is [eʊ]. So how  

> do you pronounce 'fleece'?

 

 

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