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How is wl- pronounced? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The pronunciation of wl and wr is so ingrained that Minkova need not cover how they would be pronounced in Old English; meanwhile, she carefully documents how the sounds would have changed into Middle English
pronunciation - Silent w in words starting with wr- - English . . . Not My Field, so subject to correction: In Old English the “voiced labiovelar approximant” w was in fact pronounced in the initial clusters wr and wl Lass, Cambridge History of the English Language describes the loss of this pronunciation in the context of “Onset-cluster reduction” (III, page 122): Witch which, not knot, Nash gnash, rite write are homophones in most varieties of
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Why does ow have two different sounds - English Language Usage . . . The words now and snow have never rhymed in the history of English Both of them are native English words; they did not come into English from Dutch or German (Rather, English, Dutch and German all descend from a common ancestor, Proto-Germanic; that is why these three languages have similar words ) The different vowel sounds of these two words came to be spelled the same way only by