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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="PT-BR">===========================================</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="PT-BR">L O W L A N
D S - L - 01 March 2009 - Volume 06</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">===========================================</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From:<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"> </span></span><span class="ep8xu"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Phonology"</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">Â </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beste
Diederik</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Just a
quick reaction, haven't got much time now unfortunately.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It's nice
to hear you're working on a spelling. I guess you know that some folks in Leuven have tried to introduce one 6 or 7 years ago?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anyway,
traditionally, long "o" is indeed pronounced along the lines of
"oeë" in Brabant (except for the
southwestern corner which is an extension of Eastern Flemish "uuë").
There are words though, that don't follow this rule and I'm now talking about
the dialect of Merchtem, but I'm quite sure there's other communities too.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">jeuken is pronounced like
"uëken"...note that Kiliaan has "joocken" as primary
form...noun = uksel</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">stroper becomes
"struëper"</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">geloven becomes
"geluëven"</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">roven becomes
"ruëven"</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">droog is "druëg"</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">a family name like "Van de
Moortele" becomes "De Meuter", and a street named after him
is pronounced "Muëtersweg" (Meutersweg officially)...however,
nowadays, "moortel" (like the stuff that masonry workers are
using) and modder are both "moeëter"</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">buigen is of course
"boëgen" normally, but if you want to express the fact that
you're actively causing an object to bend, then it's "buëgen"</span></span></li></ul>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Case number
6 (which is like a relic) makes me think that the name of famous Brabantish
painter Breugel, may have been pronounced like "Bruëgel",
"Brugel" or even "Bruul", and indeed quite a number of
toponyms are attested as "Bruul" in Brabant (instead of
"Briel", "Breul", "Broel" elsewhere). Keyword is
Celtic "brogilo". The spelling of Breugel's name (both as Breug(h)el
and Brueghel), seems to give away that in the past people were mixing up
"eu" (öö) with "uë". They looked sort of interchangeable.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I remember
reading that "uë" instead of "oeë" for long "o"
is an "innovation" (couple of centuries ago) that started out in Ghent (and Ronse) almost
at the same time, and then gradually spread eastward. Maybe the area used to be
bigger than it is now?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">That's all
for now.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kind
greetings,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Luc
Hellinckx</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
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