Timeline for Why are there two pronunciations for "either"?
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| Apr 30, 2019 at 4:05 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2016 at 20:57 | comment | added | Jon Purdy | @sumelic: Yes, this would be the palatal g (Modern English y), and the th (actually þ) would be voiced because it’s intervocalic. So it would be IPA [ˈæːjˌðər], which is closer to [ˈaɪˌðɚ] than to [ˈiːˌðɚ]. | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 5:48 | comment | added | herisson | Your link is giving me a 404 error, but isn't "g" generally supposed to have had multiple values in Old English? I thought that here it was the palatal variant (sometimes written ġ in modern scholarly works for clarity) that would be pronounced more like the "y" in Modern English "young" (from Old English ġeong). | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 17:29 | history | edited | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2011 at 23:35 | comment | added | oosterwal | I'd bet 14 florins that the pronunciation depended highly on which village was being sampled. | |
| Aug 22, 2010 at 22:48 | comment | added | avpaderno | I added a link that reports the reconstructed pronunciation of Old English. | |
| Aug 22, 2010 at 22:48 | history | edited | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 22, 2010 at 19:05 | comment | added | Charlie | How did they say those words though? How would a speaker do it today? | |
| Aug 22, 2010 at 11:12 | history | edited | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 22, 2010 at 1:35 | history | edited | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 13, 2010 at 19:05 | history | answered | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 2.5 |