Renfrew's Celtic Scenario

[Stanley Friesen]

At 02:41 PM 2/23/00 -0500, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>-- good point.  The pronunciation has changed a lot more than the orthography.
>  When English spelling was regularized, it was fairly phonetic.

Far more than most people realize.  I recently discovered that the vowels
in 'bead' and 'deed' were different in Elizabethan English (and the 'head'
probably had the same vowel as 'bead').

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