[Spellyans] cauldron

[Craig Weatherhill]

In that case, he rather missed the point.  As far as I can tell, all  
the <au> words are loan-words or personal names.

Craig


On 12 Whe 2010, at 12:20, Owen Cook wrote:

> On 12/02/2010, Craig Weatherhill <craig at agantavas.org> wrote:
>> It seems that KK couldn't make its mind up about this graph.  Some  
>> words
>> with <au> (dauns, cauns, etc), it spells with <o>; others it spells  
>> with
>> <ow>.  Makes little sense to me.  Why change the originals at all?
>
> Well, Lhuyd's <au> with underdot should represent [aw], while <au> in
> the manuscript tradition might be [ɔ] or [ɒː] or something similar.
> But that still doesn't explain why they chose to change Lhuyd's [aw]
> to a graph representing [ow].
>
> ~~Owen
>
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