Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices
The History of English Podcast
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The Origins of English Spelling
English spelling has accounted for these old sound changes, and today we use the letter V to show that change. The Anglo-Saxons just thought of those two sounds as a single sound, or two slightly different ways of rendering the same sound. But interestingly, when we look at John Hart's transcriptions, we see that he spelled of both ways. That suggests that there was some variation in the pronunciation.
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