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QUESTIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

1. Analyse the relationships between the letters and sounds in the extract given in § 361 and say in which instances the ME spelling system was less phonetic — and more conventional — than the OE system.

2. Read the following ME words and explain the employment of the italicized letters:

certainly, pacient, carrie, killen (NE certainly, patient, carry, kill); geste, gold, (NE jest, gold); was, seson, ese, sory (NE was, season, ease, sorry); other, thinken, the, that, natheless, both (NE other, think, the, that, nevertheless, both); afere, every, fight, thief, very(NE affair, every, fight, thief, very); yonge, sonne, not, hose (NE young, sun, not, hose); mous, low, loud, toun, how (NE mouse, tow, loud, town, how); knowen, whether, straunge, what, knyght, taughte (NE know, whether, strange, what, knight, taught).

Chapter XIV
EVOLUTION OF THE SOUND SYSTEM FROM THE 11TH TO 18TH C. (§ 362-417)

Preliminary Remarks

§ 362. The sound system of the Engfish language has undergone profound changes in the thousand years which have elapsed since the OE period, The changes affected the pronunciation of words, word accentuation, the systems of vowel and consonant phonemes.

In so far as possible the sound changes in the following survey are grouped into two main stages: Early ME changes, which show the tran­sition from Written OE to Late ME — the age of literary flourishing or "the age of Chaucer" — and Early NE changes, which show the tran­sition from ME to later NE — the language of the 18th and 19th c.

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