Re: [tied] Effects of Labials on English Vowels (was: Laryngeals re

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 39031
Date: 2005-07-03

At 5:59:46 PM on Saturday, July 2, 2005, Richard Wordingham
wrote:

> 'wolf' derives from Old English _wulf_. The 'o' is
> orthographic - I presume *uuulf would have been unreadably
> ambiguous in some hands.

See also <love> and <son>.

Brian