 | Joseph Bosworth, George Waring - 1865 - 648 pàgines
...placed, and the diphthongs eo, ea, etc. are accented exactly as in B. or in C. As the simplicity of Anglo-Saxon accentuation has frequently been overlooked,...indicated the long sound of the vowel over which it was placed. Our complicated system of English vowels arose from the Norman scribes, who first confused... | |
 | Joseph Bosworth - 1874 - 644 pàgines
...diphthongs eo, ea, ete. are accented exactly as in B. or in C. As the simplicity of Anglo-Saxon accentnation has frequently been overlooked, or involved in a complicated...indicated the long sound of the vowel over which it was placed. Our complicated system of English vowels arose from the Norman scribes, who first confused... | |
 | Joseph Bosworth, George Waring - 1874 - 632 pàgines
...placed, and the diphthongs eo, ea, etc. are accented exactly as in B. or in C. As the simplicity of Anglo-Saxon accentuation has frequently been overlooked,...will tend to remove false impressions, and to make tlie matter clear, by recollecting that the Anglo-Saxons only used one accent, which always indicated... | |
 | Joseph Bosworth, George Waring - 1907 - 636 pàgines
...placed, and the diphthongs eo, ea, etc. are accented exactly as in B. or in C. As the simplicity of Anglo-Saxon accentuation has frequently been overlooked,...indicated the long sound of the vowel over which it was placed. Our complicated system of English vowels arose from the Norman scribes, who first confused... | |
 | John Wycliffe - 1907 - 638 pàgines
...placed, and the diphthongs eo, ea, etc. are accented exactly as in B. or in C. As the simplicity of Anglo-Saxon accentuation has frequently been overlooked,...one accent, which always indicated the long sound of tlic vowel over which it was placed. Our complicated system of English vowels arose from the Norman... | |
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... denote the length of the vowel, but merely to indicate the etymological origin of the accented vowel. Every accent in the Anglo-Saxon text, therefore, denotes the long sound of the vowel over which it is placed, and the diphthongs eo, ea, etc. are... 