[Spellyans] fleece

[Michael Everson]

On 25 Nov 2009, at 18:08, nicholas williams wrote:

> Yes lywyow. Though the form is not attested. And 'colour' is lew in  
> CW:
> ha frutes teke aga lew CW 1051.
>
> If you spell 'flood' as liv, you will still have lyw 'colour' and  
> lyw 'rudder'.

That bothers me a lot less than having all three the same!

The singular for 'flood' may have had both forms [liːv] and [liʊ] (I  
like to compare Norwegian kniv [kniːv] and Danish kniv [kniʊ] here,  
but as its plural is livyow it really does not make sense to insist on  
the latter form since the former is just as authentic. I don't believe  
that your preference "lyw/livyow" is really "better" than the regular  
"liv/livyow".

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/