Table
| law ball taught caught |
off cloth loss |
lot stop rob cot bother |
father palm calm |
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| Middle English | aʊ | ɔ | ɔ | a | ||
| Quality change | ɒ | ɒ | ||||
| "Thought" monophthonging | ɔː | |||||
| Pre-fricative lengthening | ɒː | |||||
| A - lengthening | aː | |||||
| Quality change | ɑː | |||||
| "Lot" unrounding | ɑ | |||||
| Loss of distinctive length | ɔ | ɒ | (ɑ) | ɑ | ||
| Cloth–thought merger | (ɔ) | ɔ | ||||
| General American Output | ɔ | ɔ | ɑ | ɑ | ||
| Cot–caught merger | ɑ | ɑ | ɑ | ɑ |
Read more about this topic: Phonological History Of English Low Back Vowels
Famous quotes containing the word table:
“A child who is not rigorously instructed in the matter of table manners is a child whose future is being dealt with cavalierly. A person who makes an admiral’s hat out of linen napkins is not going to be in wild social demand.”
—Fran Lebowitz (20th century)
“Remember thee?
Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe. Remember thee?
Yea, from the table of my memory
I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past
That youth and observation copied there,
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“For the elemental creatures go
About my table to and fro,
That hurry from unmeasured mind
To rant and rage in flood and wind....
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)