Archives for March 2008
ENG 85 11 March 2008
Today: Freeborn 14, Early Modern English of the C15: Margery Kempe and the Paston Letters.
Next time: Caxton’s Prefaces to Eneydos, and to Malory’s Morte Arthure; Review of the exam, and looking ahead at an updated schedule.
Item: ðæra treowa
In the bit of text from the OE Genesis Eve states that “Of ðæra treowa wæstme ðe synd on Paradisum we etað” – we do eat the fruit of the trees that are in Paradise. Ellie noticed that you can’t make “treowe” (as I mistranscribed) work if this is gen. pl. masc (which [...]
Sound Comparisons
I found this site while looking for some guides to the IPA online while studying. It is a guide to the “accents of English from around the world.” On the site, you can choose a word from the Standard English, like “daughter,” and see it transcribed in IPA and (for most) hear [...]
On Vowels
The OE vowel chart in Freeborn only maps 7 vowels (y, i, e, ae, o, u, and a), but the other reading we had about OE pronunciation maps 13, apparently long and short ones separately (i and I, e and ε, and the schwa, for example). How many of these do we need [...]
I got this message from a student:
I was going over the study guide this weekend an encountered a little bit of an issue with finding the vowel maps in the mouth. I know there is an OE vowel map of the mouth in Freeborn, but I had trouble constructing a ME mapping from the many [...]