SC - Question about pronunciation
Laura C Minnick
lainie at gladstone.uoregon.edu
Thu Apr 22 01:18:26 PDT 1999
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Jessica Tiffin wrote:
> My Middle English is a bit rusty... I do know that the 'e' on the end
> is pronounced, sounded like the 'e' in "horses"; I suspect
> (feverishly consulting my Chaucer...) the 'a' should be an 'ah', as
> in 'father'. Effect should be something like "mahk - eh".
>
> Hope this helps. Better still, hope it's right!
So far as I can tell, that's as close as we'll get without a time machine
and tape recorder. Good work!
'Lainie
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Laura C. Minnick
University of Oregon
Department of English
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"Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
Bodleian."
Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731
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