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:
“For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 22:27.
“the moderate Aristotelian city
Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry
And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience,
And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)