From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 36563 Date: 2005-03-02
On 05-03-02 12:56, tgpedersen wrote:
> Which means /v/ was French to the natives, but /w/ was not
> necessarily native to the Normans.
How come, if they'd brought it with themselves? Their leader was a
certain _W_illiam, you know, and in the Norman dialect Old French /w/
was still /w/, not /gw/ > /g/, which it became in Parisian French
(Norman werre, Parisian guerre, Norman wage, Parisian gage).