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Updated: May 5, 2025
This change may have manifested itself somewhat later than 7; all English dialects have diphthongized old Germanic long i, but the long undiphthongized u is still preserved in Lowland Scotch, in which house and mouse rhyme with our loose. 7 and 8 are analogous developments, as were 5 and 6; 8 apparently lags behind 7 as 6, centuries earlier, lagged behind 7.
In all four of these cases initial j, initial v, final "zh," and unaccented a of father English has not taken on a new sound but has merely extended the use of an old one. Occasionally a new sound is introduced, but it is likely to melt away before long. The new ü did not long hold its own; it became diphthongized to iu and was amalgamated with the native iw of words like new and slew.
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