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Alex Foreman
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I am a literary translator and the very model of a modern language nerd.

Interests include: literary translation, historical phonology, history of English, Arabic, Persian, French and Latin languages. And blankets, just because.

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Why and when was the trilled R in middle English replaced by the modern untrilled one?
Aug 31, 2018
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Has there been any theory on the vowel /o/ that was inserted into words like "arrow"?
Aug 31, 2018
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Rhyming conventions of Early Modern English
Aug 31, 2018
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Shakespeare's Scansion: the Sequel
Sep 1, 2018
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When and where did the guttural 'r' originate?
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What is the earliest example of the monophthongisation of 'oe'?
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On Macrons and Vowels