Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Wed Jul 19 14:13:18 EDT 2017
On 2017-07-19 09:29, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:
>
>> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> * a final "v" receives a superfluous "e" ("love")
>>
>> It's not superfluous there, it's preventing "love" from looking like
>> it should rhyme with "of".
>
> I'm pretty sure that wasn't the original motivation. If I had to guess,
> the reason was the possible visual confusion with "w".
>
> An interesting tidbit is that the English spelling demonstrates how the
> [o] sound regularly shifted into an [ĘŚ] sound in front of nasals and
> "v":
>
> dove
> love
> hover
In UK English, "hover" has the short-O sound.
> cover
> shove
> above
>
> sponge
> come
> among
> front
> done
> son
> monk
> monkey
>
> Again, exceptions abound:
>
> on
> wrong
> song
> gone
> long
>
Also:
cove
stove
and then there's:
move
which is different again.
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