[Spellyans] Front unrounded vowels, was: The quantity system

[Jon Mills]

However Lhuyd gives "Byz pan", 'Until' (AB 249a); and "Biz", 'Even unto' (AB249b).
Jon


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "nicholas williams" <njawilliams at gmail.com>
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Front unrounded vowels, was: The quantity system
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:17:08 +0100
> 
> 
> And worse still <bys> 'world' is pronounced bizz by ex-KK speakers
> (e.g. Matthew Clarke).
> Bizz is an error as is privv for prëv. 
_____________________________________
Dr. Jon Mills,
School of European Culture and Languages,
University of Kent


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