Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation

[Tom Zurinskas]

>From the ADS home page

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Interpretation?

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling


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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Mark Mandel
> Subject: Re: Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation
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> Back to the scope question! Amy, IIRC I asked about that sometime soon after
> I started reading the list, and was told in reply that it's
> the [American [Dialect Society]]
> not
> *the [[American Dialect] Society]
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> So dialects of Old Norse, Icelandic, and other (even non-Germanic! :)
> languages are definitely on topic.
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> m a m
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> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Amy West wrote:
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>> On 6/15/10 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>>> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:47:01 +0000
>>> From:ronbutters at AOL.COM
>>> Subject: Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation
>>>
>>> Thanks to Amy for the information. I have removed her "OT" designation
>> because this is clearly a linguistic topic and relates directly to issues
>> involving the rationale for pronunciation of written texts.
>>> [...]
>>
>> [...]
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>> So, Ron, I think we're back to me being an oddball. To those trained to
>> use the modern Icelandic pron., I sound like I'm reading Faerie Queene
>> with a 16th c. pron.
>>
>> I return you to your regularly scheduled discussion of American dialets.
>>
>> --
>> ---Amy West
>>
>>
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