Re: [tied] Oddity of English (was: Pronunciation of "r" - again?)

Andrew Jarrette wrote:

> -- I forgot one other challenge to this hypothesis: why then doesn't
> "road" rhyme with "broad"? Or "groats" sound like "grauts"? Or
> "rope" sound like "raup"?

<groats> did sound like "grauts" until the nineteenth century.

Piotr