From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61940
Date: 2008-12-07
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Negation
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
> The notion of "regular" evolution is somewhat artificial.
> The word siècle "century" is regular as regards the vowel e > iè
> it's irregular because it should be siègle with g.
Shouldn't it be *sieille or *sile if it were regular?
Richard.
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Secale becomes seigle
so I suppose secula should be siègle.
but some people like M. Scott know Old French laws better than me.
I let them explain.
Arnaud