Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices
The History of English Podcast
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The Origins of the J Sound in English
The letter J evolved out of the letter I, and it emerged as a distinct letter in the 1600s and 1700s. John Hart came up with his own way to represent that sound, which is actually used by some linguist to this day. We don't really have any solid evidence of the sound in English until the 1640s so I'll save a detailed discussion about that development for a future episode.
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