![]() ![]() You can say this sound by making the sound spelled by ea in cheat and then rounding your lips. The letter y is found often in Old English but never as a (semi-)consonant (e.g as in yard): In Old English it was used for a type of sound we no longer have in Modern English, a kind of umlauted u as in French tu in later Old English it came to be essentially interchangeable with i.the Modern English equivalent of OE dragan and Dutch dragen is draw in the sense of ‘to pull’ as in British expressions such as ‘to draw a cart’ or even ‘to draw a bath’). However most examples of the latter turn up as w in Modern English (e.g. They do not distinguish between the g in God and in words like dragan. As with the letter c, textbooks commonly put a dot above g when it is used in words like ġeard (yard). The letter g was used for sounds like the g in God (OE god), the y in yard (OE geard), and a sound no longer found in modern English, but common in Dutch words like dragen (OE dragan).The letter f was used in Old English for both the sounds we now spell as f (as in wife) and those we spell using v (as in wives). Both were used for sounds we now often spell with a u. u and v were graphic variants of each other.Otherwise s was used for both the sound we spell with s (or ss or c) in words like chess and rice and the sound we spell with z (or s) in words like seize and cheese. ![]()
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