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Posted By:
geoffhargreaves
Suffix -el to -le
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12/15/20
04:33 PM
Can anyone suggest why and when the Anglo-Saxon suffix -el was changed to -le, but keeping the same pronunciation? E.g. "riddel" in A-S became "riddle".
Posted By:
LukeJavan8
Re: Suffix -el to -le
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12/15/20
05:49 PM
WELCOME
Posted By:
A C Bowden
Re: Suffix -el to -le
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12/23/20
03:41 AM
I suspect that the spelling change was due to
some
change in pronunciation.
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