ANSTHRLD - Fwd: Heraldry Question

Richard Culver rbculver at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 12 12:01:15 PST 2001


>The spelling <Sybylle> is documented in the parish registers for St.
>Mary's, Dymock (excerpts from my article on Dymock are below).  I don't
>know how it would have been pronounced in 16th C English, but I know that
>an "e" at the end of a word was not silent in Chaucer's time.  It was
>pronounced approximately "eh".
>
>Here are some more spellings of this name.

  The "y" here I think it retains the "i" in "knit" much like the modern 
pronounciation.

Cyniric

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