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:
“The salt person and blasted place
I furnish with the meat of a fable;
If the dead starve, their stomachs turn to tumble
An upright man in the antipodes
Or spray-based and rock-chested sea:
Over the past table I repeat this present grace.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The one happiness is to shut one’s door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.”
—Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)