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Gallitrot
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“Anglish”
- February 26, 2012, 11:15am
This is fairly interesting, showing the many of the true Old English words that exist in English dialect forms.
“Anglish”
- February 26, 2012, 11:12am
Yeah, I'd selfly do away with the redundant 'e' at the end, and because I've seen the variant of 'noote' in ME then had it lived on into modern times, then I suppose the ending 'e' would have been eclipsed by Early Modern English spelling reform. Nute is also an option as it's like the Dutch 'nut' , the only problem is it also sounds like the amphibian, or virtually like what you do to a tom cat when it's 'haming' about the sheeders ;)
“Anglish”
- February 25, 2012, 7:12pm
Im seeing the word 'note' being used for the verb use. Now Ive seen that the ME spellings offer both 'note' and 'noote'. However, I find a discrepancy in how the pronunciation would be in modern English. As we don't really have a dead cert that 'note' is from Old English or Latin then this leaves the edquickening of it open to anewing the spelling, especially to stop muddling it with today's use of 'note' - so is there room for 'noot'?
“Anglish”
- February 25, 2012, 6:24pm
This ME wordlist has manifold busens(examples) of Germanic words that we no longer brook:
“Anglish”
- February 25, 2012, 5:53pm
Trending people towards true English words is wholly worth attempting, seeing as I don't think anyone has tried wholeheartedly for 200 yrs or more.
Jayles, I appreciate you picking up on all my latinate word usage, but just to set it straight, I'm looking to get my point across to not just those of us in the know, but those who stumble upon this site. Plus, for swiftness' sake and whilst we're discussing issues then I don't like to overdo it with anewed wordhoard that can complicate communication between all who partake.
“Anglish”
- February 25, 2012, 1:17pm
Jayles, they're my feelings entirely!
As you're aware, even all the Norman French borrowings would have paled into insignificance if they hadnt been strengthened and refortified with doublet and triplet borrowings from Early Modern French and Latin in the intervening centuries. Military and medical terms, had they not been introduced en masse to dumbfound the common man and keep him in his place during the Middle Elds, would fairly undoubtedly have developed more native nomenclature or inlandish-clepingwords had they not been purposely thrutched (oppressed).
“Anglish”
- February 24, 2012, 2:26am
@Jayles, the Germans only got p*ssed off with the Rechtschreibung 'cause it was coming in too thick and fast. A few years ago, German said to me 'wow, you know the spelling reforms better than I '' that does not bode well for any reform when the natives don't get it.
The American spellings were only successful 'in part' because Webster fortuitously lived around the time of post independent patriotism. I actually think more of his spelling reforms would have had greater effect if he'd stuck to the words where it bore out that pronunciation was indeed no way affected by lobbing off the odd U here and there. Unfortunately, he got a bee in his bonnet about single and double letters which meant the logic of words like 'committing' became 'commiting' in his eyes, and everyone knows a mite is not something you want to get together with. However, in his defence, the man researched all his etymologies from English dialect origins through to the fashions of gentrification and affected speech. Unlike Dr S Johnson who was a pompous bigoted gobsh*te.
“Anglish”
- February 22, 2012, 6:30am
I'm with Aengelfolc on this one, updating is necessary for the mammoth task of again flooding English with fremeful and useful words of native stock. Of course, we should concentrate on the resurrection of words lost in the late ME and EME periods, as their spellings require little reshaping. Y/ G for Yogh spellings are irrelevant at present, as we're stuck with an internationally recognised Latin structured alphabet, though, in time I believe Eth and Thorn would be highly useful additions as they offer nice clarification concerning pronunciation differences in words like 'think' and 'these', and would save me a fortune on SMS message abbreviation. The crux of the issue still remains the meeting of like minds determined to edquicken the unnecessary loss of wordhoard over the ages.
“Anglish”
- February 22, 2012, 6:17am
*sad wrongs done our tongue...
“Anglish”
@Aengelfolc: Yeah, that's true,there are many homophones/ selfclanks in English, but before I commit to the spelling 'nute' I just want to verify with you that the sound shifts are plausible to get to this proposed spelling from ME 'noote' obviously updating OE 'notian/nyttian/neotan' would likely lead to a '-u-' spelling, particularly for 'notian' pron. 'nootyan'. We have to all yeasay before we start to 'use' it - sorry, I mean 'noot/nute' it.