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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Michael Everson<br>
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:01 AM</span></font><font color=navy><span
lang=EN-GB style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Palatino Linotype"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>“{…} We do have some <bÿs>~<bës> words
like (I believe) <bÿw>~<bëw> but that alternation is catered for. I
am not sure how many of these there are. The SWF in §3.0 tries to use <y>
as an umbrella graph for this, writing <yw> for what it says is [IU]~[EU]
(it also claims to distinguish this from <iw> [iU]~[IU] which is a
complete fiction). Apart from the verb 'to be' KS writes <ÿw>~<ëw>
regularly, and KS rejects <iw> entirely.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>I don’t believe it is so easy to
dismiss an earlier (I’m talking Old Cornish) distinction between /iw/ and /Iw/.
I don’t believe the actual contrast survived into Middle Cornish, but certain
developments differed. The older /iw/ words remained distinct up to Late
Cornish, whereas /Iw/ and /ew/ eventually merged. What we end up with in Late
Cornish is a /iw/ [IU] ~ /ew/ /EU/ distinction. The /iw/ words are usually the
Old Cornish /iw/-words. LC /iw/ from diphthongised MC /y:/ were added to this
class. In a system of umbrella graphs <iw> for “stable” /iw/ isn’t a bad
idea, while <yw> is used as the pre-/Iw/~/ew/-merger umbrella graph. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>To suggest that Middle Cornish
had a contrast /iw/ ~ /Iw/ ~ /ew/, is, I believe, mistaken. Lhuyd shows,
though, that it is OC /iw/ that remained distinct until LC. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Palatino Linotype"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>“We could either mark the
<bêwnans>~<bôwnans> [eU]~[oU] words with circumflex, or we could
mark the <Jôwan> words with a circumflex. This makes me wonder if there
are words in <ew> which don't have an alternation... in which case
<bêwnans>~<bôwnans> is the better choice as we would be marking an
alternation. We would then have <êwna>~<ôwna> 'emend' and
<owna> 'fear'.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>We could do many things, we
could spell the <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Jowan</span></i></b>
words <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Joowan</span></i></b>,
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Kernoowek</span></i></b>,
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>loowan</span></i></b>…
we could right <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Jûan</span></i></b>,
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Kernûak</span></i></b>, <b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>lûan</span></i></b>, or find many
other pretty solutions… <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>We could also talk about the SWF
and what we might want to tweak there…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>Dan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face="Palatino Linotype"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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