Re: History of French

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:17:34 GMT

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> Brian M. Scott writes:
>
> > Ah, yes. And the differences between the vowel systems of
> > modern English and Middle English are trivial, no doubt.
>
> We don't have any recordings of Middle English, so we'll never know.

You keep saying that, but you refuse to learn how we _do_ know about the
pronunciation of Middle English. Why should we bother with you any
further? 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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