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I didn't know about the pronunciation of "ȝ", and the examples in the article about the silent "gh" helps explain some modern German/English cognates: "daughter
by _petronius 10y ago
I didn't know about the pronunciation of "ȝ", and the examples in the article about the silent "gh" helps explain some modern German/English cognates: "daughter/Tochter", "thought/gedacht", etc.
The northern dialect of Middle English that the Pearl poet wrote in ("The Pearl", "Gwain and the Green Knight") makes use of this letter, much more so than Chaucer's more southern English. It's actually possible to read Chaucer with the help of some vocabulary tips -- the Pearl poet, at least in my experience, is way harder.
- jacobush 10y agoEnglish: though Swedish: dock Makes sense now. The Scandinavian pronunciation is one step harder on the scale with German in the middle.
- pacaro 10y agoAlso dough, duff, dog, and dick, are all the same word (when used in traditional British cooking)
- pacaro 10y agoA little surprised by the downvote. these cognates are how we get dishes like "plum Duff", and "spotted dick". Grocery stores sometimes bowdlerize the latter to "Spotted Richard", but "Spotted Dog" would be more appropriate
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- infradig 10y agoAnd also hot dog. The 'dog' being the dough or bun, not the meat in the middle.
- DanBC 10y agoWait, what? Do you have a cite for that, because everything I've seen calls the meat the dog. This use is from maybe the 1880s when any sausage was called a dog. http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/hotdog.asp http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/hotdog.asp
- maaarghk 10y agoyogh has some other, more subtle uses than the article mentions too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalziel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalziel
- porges 10y agoAlso why Menzies is pronounced "mingiz": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menzies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menzies
- amyjess 10y agoMcKenzie was originally pronounced this way as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_(surname) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_(surname)