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  2. Old English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The sounds [f v] were both written as f , the sounds [s z] were both written as s , and the sounds [θ ð] were both written as either ð or þ (even though there were two letters, they were not used in Old English to distinguish between the voiceless and voiced versions of this sound: therefore, the Old English letter ð is not always ...

  3. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...

  4. Œ - Wikipedia

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    In all cases, œ is alphabetized as oe, rather than as a separate letter. When oe occurs in French without the ligature, it is pronounced /wa/ or sometimes /wɛ/ , just like words spelt with oi . The most common words of this type are poêle ("stove", "frying pan") and moelleux ("soft").

  5. Phonological history of Old English - Wikipedia

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    o e etc. /o e/ etc. Short nasal vowels ǫ ę etc. /õ ẽ/ etc. Long vowels ō ē etc. /oː eː/ etc. Long nasal vowels ǭ ę̄ etc. /õː ẽː/ etc. Overlong vowels ô ê /oːː eːː/ Overlong nasal vowels ǫ̂ ę̂ /õːː ẽːː/ "Long" diphthongs ēa ēo īo īe /æːɑ eːo iːu iːy/ "Short" diphthongs ea eo io ie /æɑ eo iu iy/ Old ...

  6. Open-mid front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is œ . The symbol œ is a lowercase ligature of the letters o and e. The letter ɶ , a small capital version of the Œ ligature, is used for a different vowel sound: the open front rounded vowel.

  7. Open front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The letter ɶ is the small caps rendition of Œ . œ , the lowercase version of the ligature, is used for the open-mid front rounded vowel. While the IPA chart lists it as a fully open vowel, the rounded equivalent of [a] , Ladefoged [ 2 ] characterizes it as near-open, the rounded equivalent of [æ] .

  8. SoundSpel - Wikipedia

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    The letter x does not form the plurals of words ending with a / k / sound; for example, the plural of dok ('dock') is not dox, but doks. This follows (formal) traditional spelling. This follows (formal) traditional spelling.

  9. Close-mid front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of [ø]. The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is ø , a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese, which sometimes use the letter to represent the sound.