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Topic: Iotacism


  
  Vowel shift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Other examples of ongoing vowel shifts are the Southern Vowel Shift in the southern United States, the California Vowel Shift in California English, or the Northern cities vowel shift in Michigan, Chicago, and parts of upstate New York.
The Greek language also underwent a vowel shift near the beginning of the Common Era, which included iotacism.
A vowel shift can involve a merger of two previously different sounds, or it can be a chain shift, where vowels play "musical chairs".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vowel_shift   (151 words)

  
 Silent E - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Silent E generally turns the sound written as 'u' to its corresponding long vowel /u:/; however, this sound is frequently subject to iotacism, yielding /jʉ:/ in actual speech.
Which words take this 'yod' and which lose it vary from dialect to dialect.
Initial long 'u' as in use is almost always subject to iotacism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silent_E   (1637 words)

  
 Untitled Document
iotacism has been the name of my website since 1998.
If you happen to be an author, or anyone else, interested in having a site built by us drop me an email or leave a message in the Forum.
The first version of iotacism was a Tripod site which was mostly set up to store the episodes of a Jerry Cornelius serial that I was writing called Art Muzak Poetry and the Land on Four Stillts.
www.iotacism.com /new/about.htm   (354 words)

  
 Lete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A titular see of Macedonia, known by its coins and inscriptions, mentioned in Ptolemy (III, xiii), the younger Pliny (IV, x, 17), Harpocration, Stephanus Byzantius, and Suidas, and in the Middle Ages in Nicephorus Bryennius (IV, xix).
The spelling "Lite" is incorrect and comes from iotacism.
Lete appears in some "Notitiæ episcopatuum" of a late period as suffragan of Thessalonica, later united to the See of Rentina.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lete.html   (144 words)

  
 iotacism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
There are several words which have 8 letters but only one syllable (strength, sleights, and thoughts).
Now, "iotacism" holds a record: 8 letters and 5 syllables.
Another record held by "iotacism": It is the least useful word in the English Language.
www.niquette.com /books/101words/ioticism.htm   (275 words)

  
 greeklatinaudio.com additional information
The traditional names may be found in any Greek grammar or dictionary.
"Iotacism" is an important phenomenon which greatly affects the pronunciation of modern Greek and renders within it a preponderance of the EE/ee sound.
Greek "iotacism" further manifests itself in the phonetic names of the letters of the Greek alphabet.
www.greeklatinaudio.com /additional.htm   (846 words)

  
 iotacism - OneLook Dictionary Search
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iotacism : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Iotacism : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?w=iotacism   (171 words)

  
 P46: Reading The Text - Line 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In this line the scribe wrote ὑμεῖν in place of ὑμῖν; this is an example of a common occurrence in the papyri known as reverse iotacism.
In Roman Egypt, ει and ι (as well as certain other vowel combinations) were pronounced the same, leading to the many spelling errors generally known as iotacisms.
These pages designed and written by Terrence Szymanski.
www.lib.umich.edu /pap/k12/reading/Paul/line05.html   (87 words)

  
 Archive 1
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family.knick.net /thecastle/buzzarchive1.htm   (736 words)

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