Hi Mark, everyone, What has been the case was *basing the spelling on the dictionaries of Old English Made Easy, which is based on Clark Hall's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon, as well as further expansion from the Bosworth and Toller dictionary. There was one spelling for one word, to attempt to avoid confusion for new readers. The spelling is early West Saxon. * macrons instead of accents for long vowels (I wasn't too much in favor of that, but that's over and done with) * avoid dotted c/g for compatibility and that the language rules essentially let you know when it is or isn't a palatal consonant *Use 'y' as a front vowel like German ü, not in place of 'i' and avoid 'ie' when 'i' is historically accurate
Some scholars use late West Saxon, but that is a little more mixed, so we kept with Early West Saxon. This is the practice for about 4 years now on the OE wiki.
James -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Mark Williamson" node.ue@gmail.com
And I think that is what somebody else is doing on this thread.
The Old English Wikipedia exists, it is not going anywhere soon, so let's stop criticising it, shall we?
Now, what is the standard for writing Old English within the scholarly community? If there is no consensus, which system is the most widely used? There is your answer.
Mark
On 02/04/2008, Mike R tacodeposit@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:39 AM, James Robert Johnson modean52@comcast.net wrote:
Hey everyone,
I usually troll on here, reading, but not participating indiscussions,
The word is "lurk." "Troll" means something else.
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