ENGL 2105 Lecture Notes - Great Vowel Shift, Franks Casket, Pronunciation Respelling For English
26 Feb 2014
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Made out of bones from a whale that got beached. Missionaries used latin alphabet to write down olde. Added some runic letters for sounds less familiar. Just a couple of old letter combination need to learn. For the shh sound, put an sc together (ex scip for ship) Didn"t have letter q, quoi sound with a cwen (queen) Did not tend to capitalize, punctuation was light, spacing messed up, punctuation not regulated. Books were rare and meant to be read. If you"re reading outloud, add in pauses where you want. Poetry was written out in one solid block. People speaking olde before the official date, and also after 1066 (normal conquest) Much reliance on the letter h in diegraphs. Printing came to england before the great vowel shift between mide and early modern e. many early forms are preserved though spoken english has moved on. Most sonnets have twist in last 2 lines.
