Who can argue with such logic?https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/829970446045032448 …
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Replying to @DrLRoach
Serious question: why do I pronounce the "Æthel" differently in each? And what is the correct pronunciation (if there is one)?
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Replying to @Karanthir
Correct is probably neither! We say 'Ethel-red', but it would have been closer to 'Athelred' with a voiced 'th' (as in 'the').
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Replying to @DrLRoach
I was just refering to the "Æ", hadn't even considered there would be different pronunciations for "th" too!
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Replying to @Karanthir
'Æ' should be like 'a' in 'hat'; 'A' in OE is like the 'a' in 'car'.
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Replying to @DrLRoach
Interesting. So how did Æthelred end up as "Ethelred" rather than "Athelred"?
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Replying to @Karanthir
I don't know later sound changes well enough to say whether it could be down to them; I suspect just a simplification of 'Æ', tho
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Replying to @DrLRoach @Karanthir
Pretty sure(ish) that dialect related? Mercian + Kentish saw raising of [æ] to [e], and EDEL- found on coins? :)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @DrLRoach
So it was already changing by the end of the tenth century? Fascinating!
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A few examples on PAS, fwiw :) Here's a coin of Offa minted by EDELMOD, Canterbury mint: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/589511 …pic.twitter.com/RPK24i5yfD
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Karanthir
Yes, could well be! I'm less certain if it goes that way in Middle English, though.
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E.g. Aelred of Rievaulx is actually an Æthelred.
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