History of the English language
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. The number of unstressed syllables between the stressed
syllables is not significant, varies.
Old English poetry: initial rhymes (importantfor remembering! After all, the poetry was
mainly oral, only selected poems written down by clerks at the command of
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