More logical that /je/ turns into /i/ than that /ge/ turns into /i/. Modern English still had the obsolete form "yclept" so-called. C stood for /k/, except when there was a dot on it then it stood for /kj/ which later turned into /tS/ in the Southern part of Britain, but not in the Northern part. Cf irie church, but in Scottish English (i.e. Northern English) Auld Kirk, Free Kirk (German Kirche, Est. kirik Low German loanword). Cg probably /kjkj/ which later turned into /dz/. /r/ - trilled, rolled, again preserved in Scottish English. /r/ was still rolled in Shakespeare's time ("When that warlike Harry ...") In Old English poetry the number ofsyllables per line was not important What counted was thenumber of stresses. Four stresses per line, the stresses evenly spaced A pause (in Latin called caesura) in the middle of the line. Two stresses before the pause, two stresses after the pause
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