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Alexander John Ellis · Transactions of the Philological Society · 1876
AA = a).No. 3. S ort of the last, (IS AAW=(ku).No. 4. .Thie is the German hphthong in hcrus, which ia sometimes used in received speech, but is decidedly broader than the usual literary sound of house.It occum ody in the fracture No. 4. AAW&=(ttu').No. 4. A fmtured m c! ermanmunn.di htho6g.AA-$ = (bg.NO. 6. hie is generally used for the English u p meaning 'v&' but the vowel is decidedlv l&g'iu the dialect.AAY = (64.No. 6.The German u, ui.AA*Y&=(bi').No. 7. A fractured diphthon .= (E) =bw-front-primary.NO. 8.This IE the usual provinual short e, which is a l ~o not unfrequent in literary pronunciation, but in rather broader than my e in et], and is the 'open' Prench d a n g p e n Italian e.It does not occur long in the dialeet, except in the f o l l o w fracture.AE.6 =(XI?').No. 9.This is the folly broad French long k followed b a glide leading to a short sound oP Y 111 but, resembhg the literary air in fuir, with the vowel aomiderably broader and the final r quite Mtrilled.It r e p h long a in the dialect.AEW=(E'Y).No. 10.This is the THE DIALECT OF WIGST SOMERSET.E = (e) = front-mid-wide.The ordinary literary short 6, apparently replaced by &] =(B) m scce?ted syllablee m e dialect, but nsed in the plural -a=[ezE:!where the sound ia obscnred.E =(a) =low-mixed-wide.See note to No. 8.This is smcelymore than , mth a erfectly untrilled [r], k L b , w h i c i is almost the V e as [u*]=(wymid-mixed-PnmarY.notetoNo 3 ThmlathePolishy.EE. = ($ =high-frontrimary.No.19. EEi).No. 20.The short sound in open and even closed both accented and u n a c c e n $ ??S EA = ( ~2 ) = ~h ~& $ -~.See he common 8 Eng in even. of t 6 e last vowel frequently occurs E 0 = (+az) = mid-frd-round. No. A deep variety of the closerFrench eu in far, the long German 08 in Goethe, ltojnig, in central Germany.See Postaeript. PO=(%).No. 23.The last vowel shortened.See Paatscript.F = (f) = lip-divided-voicele.Nos.43 ( A ) . 0' = (ah)=low-mixed-wide-round. This, difFers but slightly from [o] = (a).See note to No. 33.08.= (00) =mid-back-round.No. 25.This is the literary long o in smoke, without any trace of a following [ao]OA=&).No. 26.The short sound of e last vowel.O k t i = (00').No. 27.Thin is nearly the same aa the li English oas =(&),with aoJ%&x of oa OX= (y =mid-!ront-mde-rounkI & .28. t is the open French eu m veuf.See Postscript.m.