Episode 97: Lost Letters: Ash (Æ, Æ) And Ethel (Œ, Œ) Words For Granted - An Etymology And Linguistics podcast

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Episode 97: Lost Letters: Ash (Æ, æ) and Ethel (Œ, œ)

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If you've ever encountered the ligatures æ and œ in old texts, you may have wondered: what are they called? Where do they come from? How exactly are they pronounced? Why don't we use them any more? The ligatures ash and ethel are rare in English writing today, but in previous centuries, they were common. (In Old English, the sound we today associate with "short A" was actually not represented by the letter A, but by æ!)

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Episode 97: Lost Letters: Ash (Æ, æ) and Ethel (Œ, œ)

Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast

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Innhold levert av Raymond Belli and Ray Belli. Alt podcastinnhold, inkludert episoder, grafikk og podcastbeskrivelser, lastes opp og leveres direkte av Raymond Belli and Ray Belli eller deres podcastplattformpartner. Hvis du tror at noen bruker det opphavsrettsbeskyttede verket ditt uten din tillatelse, kan du følge prosessen skissert her https://no.player.fm/legal.

If you've ever encountered the ligatures æ and œ in old texts, you may have wondered: what are they called? Where do they come from? How exactly are they pronounced? Why don't we use them any more? The ligatures ash and ethel are rare in English writing today, but in previous centuries, they were common. (In Old English, the sound we today associate with "short A" was actually not represented by the letter A, but by æ!)

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133 episoder

#Linguistics #Language Learning #Etymology #Language #Raymond Belli #Ray Belli #Podcasting Education

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