[Spellyans] del 'leaves' and dèl/dell 'so, as'
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Sat Dec 13 19:52:53 GMT 2008
On 13 Dec 2008, at 16:28, <ajtrim at msn.com> <ajtrim at msn.com> wrote:
> I would leave it as <war>, though you could use <wär> to indicate
> the non-standard vowel quality.
We write <wàr> because <war> regularly shows a long vowel according to
the rules. We could write <warr> but this is a change to the wordform
that we dislike, so we choose the other means. An the vowel quality is
regular before -r.
> The Cornish for "aware" is SWF <war> with a short vowel.
No, it's got a long vowel.
>
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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